Who was Rudyard Kipling?
Joseph Rudyard Kipling was born in 1865 in Bombay, during the ‘British Raj’, the era when the subcontinent of India was part of the British Empire. His father was an artist, who also taught at the city’s School of Art. When he was only five, Kipling and his sister, Alice, were taken back to England and left with foster parents in Southsea, where he attended a small private school. The colourful sights and sounds – and freedoms- of India were sorely missed. Kipling hated his foster home, which he later referred to as the “House of Desolation”. At 12 he was sent to boarding school in Devon. The headmaster there was a friend of the family and encouraged Kipling’s interest in writing. Four years later he was back in India and working in Lahore as a journalist on two newspapers. In his spare time he penned poems and short stories. These were first printed in the newspapers, and then published as books. Through his travels all over in India, he absorbed knowledge of Hindu customs and ways of
Poet and Storywriter. Date and Place of Birth: 30th December 1865, Bombay, India. Family Background: Son of John Lockwood Kipling an artist and scholar and Curator of the Lahore Museum in India. Nephew of the wife of Sir Edward Burne-Jones and the Mother of Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister. Education: United Services College, Westward Ho! Devon. Chronology/Biography of Rudyard Kipling: 1882: After being sent to England to receive his education he returned to India and took a job as a journalist on the “Civil and Military Gazette” newspaper in Lahore. 1886: “Departmental Ditties was published in his newspaper. He also began to write for the Gazette’s sister paper the “Pioneer” in Allahabad. 1889: He returned to England hoping to repeat the literary success that he had achieved already in India. 1890: His first novel “Light that failed” was not well received. 1892: “Barrack Room Ballads” did achieve success. Set out on a world trip on his honeymoon with his new wife and then returned to h
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), the son of a British artist and scholar, was born in India. He wrote fanciful novels, short stories and poems for both adults and children. Fans of the various movies based on the two volumes of his Jungle Books (1894 and 1895) are already familiar with his works. His most famous novel, Kim, was …
