Kipling, Rudyard
Kipling, Rudyard ( 1865 – 1936 ),born in Bombay, son of John Lockwood Kipling , author and illustrator of Beast and Man in India ( 1891 ), and Alice Kipling , sister-in-law of Burne-Jones . He was brought to England in 1871 , where he spent five years living unhappily with a family in Southsea with his younger sister, separated from his parents, a period recalled with bitterness in his short story ‘Baa, Baa, Black Sheep’ ( 1888 ) and his novel The Light that Failed ( 1890 ). From 1878 to 1882 he attended the United Services College, Westward Ho!, later depicted in his schoolboy tales Stalky & Co. ( 1899 ). From 1882 to 1889 he worked as a journalist in India; many of his early poems and stories were originally published in newspapers or for the Indian Railway Library, and were later collected under various titles, which include Departmental Ditties ( 1886 ),...
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