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Caroline Starr Balestier Kipling (December 31, 1862 – December 19, 1939) was the American-born wife of Rudyard Kipling and the custodian of his literary legacy after his death in 1936. Balestier was born in Rochester, New York, to a prominent local family with a reputation for being unconventional.
- Caroline Starr Balestier, December 31, 1862, Rochester, New York, U.S.
- Wolcott Balestier (brother)
- December 19, 1939 (aged 76), Burwash, East Sussex, England
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While researching this biography, Lord Birkenhead was given access to the diaries which Carrie Kipling had kept from January 1892, just before her marriage, to Kipling’s death in 1936. His associate, Douglas Rees, was given permission to make extracts from the diaries.
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Mar 15, 2024 · BRATTLEBORO — Caroline Balestier, a young woman from Brattleboro, married world-famous author Rudyard Kipling in January 1892 while both were in London, England. The wedding took place during a flu epidemic that was sweeping through England at the time. This is the story of how Carrie and Kipling met and chose to settle in Brattleboro.
Carrington’s was the long-awaited official biography, commissioned by Kipling’s daughter and written under her supervision. With a collaborator, he had originally proposed to write a biography of Kipling in 1937, but had been refused copyright permissions and access to the papers by Mrs Kipling, who was negotiating with other authors.
Jun 28, 2021 · June 28, 2021 | Literature. John Batchelor —. Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay in 1865, the son of a highly skilled artist and sculptor, John Lockwood Kipling, and his wife Alice (nee Macdonald), who was the daughter of a celebrated Methodist.
Jun 8, 2020 · Kipling had been good friends with American writer and editor Wolcott Balestier, and he ended up marrying Wolcott’s sister Caroline “Carrie” Balestier, in January 1892.
Apr 14, 2021 · (1865-1936) Who Was Rudyard Kipling? Rudyard Kipling was born in India in 1865 and educated in England but returned to India in 1882. A decade later, Kipling married Caroline Balestier and...
