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John Kipling (17 August 1897 – 27 September 1915) was the only son of British author Rudyard Kipling. In the First World War , his father used his influence to get him a commission in the British Army despite being decisively rejected for poor eyesight.
Rudyard Kipling was born on 30 December 1865 in Bombay in the Bombay Presidency of British India, to Alice Kipling (born MacDonald) and John Lockwood Kipling. [13] Alice (one of the four noted MacDonald sisters ) [ 14 ] was a vivacious woman, [ 15 ] of whom Lord Dufferin would say, "Dullness and Mrs Kipling cannot exist in the same room."
Mowgli attacking Shere Khan: detail from a clay bas-relief by John Lockwood Kipling, father of Rudyard Kipling, from The Works of Rudyard Kipling Vol. VII: The Jungle Book, 1907. This is a list of characters that appear in Rudyard Kipling 's 1894 The Jungle Book story collection, its 1895 sequel The Second Jungle Book , and the various film ...
Kipling, whose views on colonialism and the Empire have led to a much more critical reinterpretation of his life and work in the 21st century, was perhaps the most beloved British author of the ...
The Light That Failed was initially set to be first published by John W. Lovell in New York but it was delayed, allowing for Lippincott's Magazine to publish it first in January 1891. The novel, Kipling's first, was published in four different versions over a period of two years. [7] The Lippincott edition had twelve chapters and a happy ending ...
My Boy Jack" is a 1916 poem by Rudyard Kipling. [1] Kipling wrote it for Jack Cornwell, the 16-year-old youngest recipient of the Victoria Cross, who stayed by his post on board the light cruiser HMS Chester at the Battle of Jutland until he died. Kipling's son John was never referred to as "Jack" [citation needed]. The poem echoes the grief of ...
The Man Who Would Be King (1975), adapted and directed by John Huston and starring Sean Connery as Dravot and Michael Caine as Carnehan, with Christopher Plummer as Kipling. (As early as 1954, Humphrey Bogart expressed the desire to star in The Man Who Would Be King and was in talks with Huston.) [25]
Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 Ð 18 January 1936) was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist. (Photo by: Pictures From History/Universal Images Group via Getty Images ...