Rudyard Kipling Annotated Bibliography

Banks

Camryn Banks

Hensley

Honors English 11/ First Period

9 January 2018

Part 2- Author Biography The author of “Rikki-tikki-tavi,” Rudyard Kipling, was born in Bombay, India, in 1865. Kipling spent his years as a young child in India, but in 1871 he and his sister Beatrice were shipped off to England to begin schooling. He and his sister were placed to live with an old widow of a Navy captain in a boarding home, and lived there for the better part of six years. After living in the boarding home, Kipling later addressed it as “The house of Desolation.” Kipling lived in the home for six years, and suffered bullying from the people he had been staying with. In 1878, Kipling was sent off to school in West England, but due to his parents not

After his move, his publications were beginning to be published in cheap editions that were meant to be published in railroad terminals. He soon after started to gain a following, and decided to move to England to pursue his dream of being a writer. After Kipling’s return to London his popularity flourished. Soon after an american writer by the name of Wolcott Balestier asked him to write a book with him, this book was titled The Naulahka. The book failed, but Kipling later married Balestier’s sister. They moved to Vermont and had a family together, two daughters, Josephine and Elsie. Two years after their youngest daughter was born, the Kipling’s moved back to England. After moving back to England, they welcomed their third child named John. The family still continued to travel to America, but this tradition had to end when the whole family came down with pneumonia and Josephine was killed by it. After Josephine’s death Rudyard and his son John became very close. When John became old enough, his father pushed him to join the military and help fight in World War I. After pulling some strings, John was enlisted in the Irish guard as a second lieutenant. Soon