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Caroline Starr Balestier Kipling (December 31, 1862 – December 19, 1939), also known as Carrie, was the American-born wife of Rudyard Kipling and the custodian of his literary legacy after his death in 1936. [1] Balestier was born in Rochester, New York, to a prominent local family with a reputation for being unconventional.
Wolcott Balestier, from a photograph by G.C. Cox, 1880s-1891. [1] Charles Wolcott Balestier (December 13, 1861 – December 6, 1891) was a promising American writer, editor, and publisher who died young, and is now remembered primarily for his connection to Rudyard Kipling. [2] [3] His sister Carrie Balestier married Kipling in 1891.
On 18 January 1892, Carrie Balestier (aged 29) and Rudyard Kipling (aged 26) married in London, in the "thick of an influenza epidemic, when the undertakers had run out of black horses and the dead had to be content with brown ones." [25] The wedding was held at All Souls Church in Langham Place, central London. Henry James gave away the bride ...
He died on 18 January 1936. The unfinished manuscript was edited and prepared for publication by his wife, Caroline Starr Balestier. After preliminary printing of selections from the text in a number of newspapers, the book was published by Macmillan, Kipling's established UK publisher, on 21 December 1937. [1]
The Kiplings first saw it in 1900, on returning to England from America, following the death of their daughter Josephine in 1899 and a disastrous falling-out between them and Carrie Kipling's brother, Beatty Balestier. [5] Enchanted by the house, they were too slow in making an offer and it was let for two years.
Many Inventions is an 1893 collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. 11 of the 14 stories appeared previously in various publications, including The Atlantic Monthly and The Strand Magazine. Eight of the stories were written in England, while the other six were written in Vermont after Kipling had married and settled with Caroline ...
Munger cited the poem "If—" by Nobel Prize-winning writer Rudyard Kipling to highlight his point. “As Kipling said, treat those two imposters just the same,” Munger continued. “You have to ...
Philip Burne-Jones: Caroline Starr Balestier, Mrs Rudyard Kipling (1862-1939) Artist: Philip Burne-Jones (1861–1926) Alternative names: