Kipling, Rudyard K Authors

Kipling, Rudyard K Authors

Kipling, Rudyard

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay on the 30th December 1865. He was the son of John Lockwood Kipling, a talented artist and Alice one of the gifted MacDonald sisters. Hilton Brown one of Kipling's biographers wrote in 1936 " there died a man whose name had once resounded through the temple of English literature and the explosion of whose genius had rocked its walls....No great writer was so near the hearts of his readers; no great writer had been, perhaps, since Dickens "

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- National Trust site for the author's family home from 1902 - 1936. Features gallery, events, history, and opening times.
- Collection of portraits held at the National Portrait Gallery.
- Comment and a series of past essays from the Atlantic magazine. Also includes Kipling's story "The Disturber of Traffic" printed in September 1891.
- Discussion forum and live chat devoted to the author's life and works.
- Notes on this award. Includes the citation and links to related resources.
- Collects books, manuscripts, and other items relating to the life and works of Rudyard Kipling. Includes rare images of original books and illustrations and a complete listing of the collection.
- The author's series of reports in the London Daily Telegraph, October 19, 23, 26, and 31, 1916.
- Illustrated article on Peter Bellamy's musical settings of Kipling's works. Includes Real/Audio clips and links to the text The White Man's Burden.
- Details and listings of the letters, papers and manuscripts held in the Kipling collection.
- Includes a biographical and historical chronology and discussions on Kipling's relationship with the British Empire and imperialism.
- Collection of the author's works which have been set to song.
- Article by Philip Scowcroft on the music inspired by Kipling with the incidental music written for screen adaptations of his prose works.
- Informational site which includes links to online texts and other resources.
- Information on Kipling's relationship to the origins of Boy Scouting.
- Mailing list service to exchange information and views on the life and work of the author.
- Chapter 3 of G. K. Chesterton's book Heretics in which he writes about Kipling.
- Records and details of various collections of papers, correspondence, copies, transcripts and photographs from the library of Sussex University.
- A voluntary, non-profit-making organisation, and a Registered Charity. Features a range of information on the author including his life, poems, Batemans, and a picture gallery. Includes a member's section.
- A brief examination of some of the more interesting facets of the controversy surrounding this ballad. Essay by J. K. Buda .
- Kipling's classic exhortation to empire. Features anti-imperialist responses in verse, cartoons and essays.

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