The Letters of Rudyard Kipling (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Rudyard Kipling
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Letters
- Time of Work: December, 1872-December, 1889; January, 1890-December, 1899
- Setting: London and other locations in England; Lahore, Allahabad, Simla, and other locations in the Punjab, India; San Francisco and other locations in the United States; Toronto, Canada
- Genres: Nonfiction, Letters
- Subjects: Colonialism, Authors or writers, Nineteenth century, Literature, England or English people, India or East Indian people, Letters, Morality or morals, Imperialism
- Locales: London, England, San Francisco, CA, Toronto, Canada, India
Thomas Pinney’s meticulous edition of the Kipling letters is a welcome addition to previously published and ongoing collections of letters by other eminent Edwardians, among them Joseph Conrad, E. M. Forster, George Bernard Shaw, and William Butler Yeats. In fact, the Kipling collection has appeared after the publication of notable Georgian letters, such as editions for James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, C. S. Lewis, Katherine Mansfield, and Virginia Woolf.
One reason for the tardy publication of Kipling’s letters is that his correspondents were widely scattered across at least...
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