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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. [1] Balestier was born in Rochester, New York, to a prominent local family with a reputation for being unconventional. [2] [3] Her paternal grandfather, whose ...
- 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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These fifty-six articleswere written for the Civil and Military Gazette when Kipling was a young journalist (aged only 18 in March 1884) working as assistant editor of that journal, the main English newspaper in the populous province of the Punjab. Based in the ancient city of Lahore, it was mainly written for and read by the Anglo-Indian community...
Kipling published a selection of his speeches in 1928 under the title ‘A Book of Words, Selections from Speeches and Addresses Delivered between 1906 and 1927.’ Thomas Pinney has gathered together the text of forty-eight further speeches which he published in 2005 under the title A Second Book of Words,ELT Press, Greenboro North Carolina 2008.
In addition to the notes on specific works, the Guide includes a number of General Articles on a wide range of themes, including: 1. “What Rudyard Kipling can do for you”by Harry Ricketts. 2. “The Great War and Rudyard Kipling” by Hugh Brogan 3. “Kipling’s Burma”by George Webb 4. “Kipling’s Cars”kip_carsby John Walker 5. “Kipling and Dreams”, by Ma...
W E Henley on ‘The New Writer’Some notes by David Alan Richards on various Kipling: curiosities of interest to collectors: 1. Introductory 2. Collecting Kipling 3. Kipling’s Winnipeg Speech 4. “The School Budget” 5. Kipling’s Auld Lang Syne” 6. War’s Brighter Side 7. “Bravest Deeds and Fearless in Duty” 8. Echoes 9. “Old Johnny Grundy” 10. “Why Snow Falls at Vernet” 11. Departm...
As we approached the centenary of the Armistice on November 11th, 2018, we published Rodney Atwood’s powerful article on “Kipling and the Great War”. Some tales Kipling wrote about the War and its aftermath 1. Swept and Garnished 2. Sea Constables 3. Mary Postgate 4. The Gardener 5. A Madonna of the Trenches 6. The Janeites 7. ‘In the Interests of ...
Alastair Wilson has completed his notes on the Rees and Carrington extracts from Carrie Kipling’s Diaries from 1892 to 1935, fruits of four years’ work. They are to be found among the “For Members” pages of this site. They have been illustrated and edited by John Radcliffe.
We have developed a system through which you can search for themes and people in Kipling’s stories. Click here Our aim is not to define or pigeon-hole particular tales, but rather to give readers the chance of seeing where particular themes or references crop up in his writings. In our discussions about this system we have frequently struck issues ...
Kipling has been much parodied, in his own day and since. We are gathering these verses from many sources and where they are within copyright have taken steps to secure permission to republish them here. Where origin cannot be identified or authors reached we trust that they will be happy to walk here in Kipling’s company. After his voracious readi...
Editors and contributors have committed a substantial amount of work to the NRG, much of which is original. By agreeing to contribute, they are giving the Society the right to publish their work freely on the web. If commercial publication in any form is envisaged, their author’s rights remain. The Kipling Society allows users of the NRG online, wh...
Mar 15, 2024 · Carrie taught Kipling how to use a typewriter. Wolcott began writing a novel with him. The book would be called, “The Naulahka.” The theme of the book was the meeting of western and eastern world cultures. Wolcott and Kipling became best friends and spent a great deal of time together.
Sep 25, 2015 · To Kipling’s wife, Carrie, the threat of capture seemed as dreadful a prospect as death: her husband’s hatred for the Hun (Kipling’s term for Germans, when he was not calling them “wild...
Each year of the extracts from Carrie Kipling’s diaries made by Douglas Rees on behalf of Lord Birkenhead ends with a ‘Summary of xxxx ‘ We have not included them with the combined ‘Extracts’ which can be found on the ‘For Members’ part of the Kipling Society web-site, but we are including them here as a useful overall account of ...
Jun 28, 2021 · Kipling immediately sailed back to England, was met by Carrie Balestier and her mother on January 10, 1892, and was married to Carrie just over a week later. The marriage dismayed his parents and astonished his literary friends (especially the distinguished novelist Henry James, who was asked to escort the bride at the Kiplings’ marriage).
May 1, 2001 · Drawing on a vast archive of diaries and letters, Adam Nicolson exposes the malignancy and detachment at the heart of the Kipling marriage. For the first time, Carrie is seen for the woman she was--not as a bully intent on controlling her genius husband, but as a lonely survivor in the face of serial family tragedy.
