RUDYARD KIPLING

Rudyard's early years were his happiest spent in in India with exotic sights and sounds, but those years were short lived becuase at the early age of five young Rudyard Kipling was sent of to England to stay with a foster family in Southsea where he was very unhappy. Later on Rudyard returned to Lahore in India at the age of sixteen to work for the Civil and Military Gazette. When Returning to England in 1889, Kipling won instant success with his work Barrack-Room Ballads which were then followed by some more brilliant short stories. After the death of a good friend from the states and writing collaborator, Wolcott Balestier, Rudyard married Wolcott's sister Carrie in 1892.After a trip around the world, he returned with Carrie to her family's home in Brattleboro, Vermont, USA, with the idea of settling down there. It was in Brattleboro, far into New England, that he wrote his novels Captains Courageous and The Jungle Books. A fight with Rudyard's brother-in-law drove the Kiplings back to England in 1896, and the  next year they moved to Rottingdean in Sussex, the county which he then adopted as his own. His son John was born in North End House, the vacation home of Rudyard's aunt, Georgiana Burne-Jones, and soon he and his wife and child moved into The Elms. By now Rudyard Kipling had come to be regarded as the People's Laureate and the great poet of Empire, and he produced some of his most memorable and best poems and stories in Rottingdean, including Kim, Stalky & Co., and Just So Stories. 

 

Rudyard Kipling died in 1935 the same year his autobiography 'Something of Myself' was published.