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Literary and Journalistic Career, 98; anti-Hindu rhetoric, 255, 256; aphorisms and memorable lines, 5, 308; as assistant editor for CMG, x, 117, 123–6, 180; attributes and craftsmanship, 4, 105, 159, 277; ballads of infidelity and betrayal, 162–3; characters as outsiders and lowlifers in Indian stories, 282; as CMG’s Simla correspondent, 186, 191–3; as CMG’s special correspondent in Lahore, 150, 157–8; collaboration with Balestier over The Naulakha, 315–16; criticism of by Wheeler at CMG, 205–6; criticism of Government of India in verses, 241–3; deputises for editor at CMG, 126, 133, 149, 258; dominance of, 1–2; early verses, 100–3; editing of Week’s News, 247–8; editorship of United Services College Chronicle, 111–12, 125, 159; as a ‘family affair’, 151, 161–2; fiction and verse written for St James’s Gazette, 299; first poems ascribed to India, 122–3; greater involvement with CMG under Robinson’s tenure, 232–3; and Henley, 306; in high demand from London’s editors and publishers, 2, 303; Hot Weather imagery, 133; identity/sources of characters, 230–2; love poems, 106–7; poems submitted to Calcutta Review, 179; poetic style, 101–2; political squibs, 130, 132, 144, 270, 283–6, 306; portraits of Indians at bottom of social pile, 259; printing of first poems by mother in Schoolboy Lyrics, 101; as public poet, 104, 241–2, 351; publishing of Barrack-Room Ballads by Henley, 306–8; publishing of poems and stories in Pioneer, 176–8, 233–4, 255; publishing of poems in The Times, 341; publishing of verses and stories in CMG, 152, 153, 167, 173, 204, 222–3, 258, 259; reaching out across cultural and class divides, 61; refusal to integrate with fellow writers in London, 302; reports on the Rawalpindi Durbar for CMG, 180–4; reviews, 203, 228, 260, 273, 294–5, 312; special correspondent for Allahabad Pioneer, 247–8, 254; study of British soldier in India, 220–3, 276, 277; success and popularity, 5–6, 294–5, 301, 310; theme of abandonment by birth parents and caring for by foster parents, 46–7; Times article on work of, 308; verses and stories published in Macmillan’s Magazine, 299–300; views of by literary contemporaries, 1–2; waning of reputation, 4–5; wariness of publishers, 303; welcoming of into London’s literary fold, 301; work approach, 159; working on Quartette supplement to CMG, 198–202; see also individual titles
Personal Life: appearance, 119, 161, 206, 254, 299, 363; attraction to older women, 232, 302; in Bermuda, 335; and birth of children, 323, 326, 338, 342; and Boer War, 351–2, 354; bouts of fever and dysentery, 310; burning of papers of by wife after death, 8–9; characteristics, 68, 128, 316; death, 8, 364; and death of daughter (Josephine), xvi, 3, 4, 347–8; and death of family members, 7; and death of Ned Burne-Jones, 344; depressions and breakdown, 288, 305, 311, 313, 342; destroying of family papers and letters, 7, 9, 344; dislike of sport, 56; disillusionment with fame, 304–5; drug-taking, 169–71, 170, 173, 174; elected to Athenaeum Club, 3, 341; fear of the dark and night terrors, 44, 59, 71, 168–9, 174, 259; fear of dirt and disease, 168, 174, 256; and Freemasonry, 213–14; growth in identification with the common man and antipathy towards exploiters of, 283; honeymoon tour, 322; leaves Vermont and moves into Rock House (Maidencombe), 339–40; leishmaniasis, 188, 192; letters to Aunt Edith, 133, 148–9, 150, 151–2, 157–8, 160, 163, 164–5, 166, 169, 174, 191, 192–3; letters to Edmonia Hill, 9, 258–9, 260–1, 265, 269, 287, 288, 290, 291, 296–7, 301–2, 303, 304, 305, 348; letters to Margaret Burne-Jones, 171, 195, 198, 215, 216, 222, 240, 248, 258–9, 260–1, 265, 269, 287, 288, 290, 291, 296–7, 301–2, 303, 304, 305; living in London, 295, 297; living in Vermont, 322–3; marriage, 321–2, 323; moves to The Elms (Rottingdean), 342; objections to Robinson’s marriage intentions towards Trix, 216–17, 234; parental background, 15–19; pneumonia and recovery, 3–4, 6, 347; process of withdrawal and guarding of privacy, 6–8, 254; public affection for, 3–4; relationship with Balestier, 313–15; relationship with Edmonia Hill, 252–3, 261, 272, 293, 295–6, 297, 305, 313; relationship with father, 311, 356–7; relationship with Flo Garrard, 106, 111, 118, 155, 261, 310, 311, 312; relationship with and letters to Isabella Burton, 231–2, 235–6, 251–2; relationship with parents, 274, 290; relationship with sister, 42, 150–1, 216; religious beliefs, 296–7; reputation as a vivisectionist of his own kind, 219; romance with Carrie Taylor, 294, 295, 296–7; and rule of law, 333; Scheme to leave India for London and ‘burning of bridges’, 266, 269–72, 273; and sister’s mental breakdown, 346; stalking of, 4; travels before reaching London, 292–5; view of Americans, 294, 322–3; visiting of Gatti’s Musical Hall, 297–8; visits to South Africa, 4, 37–8, 342–3, 351; world voyage, 319
Kipling Society, 7–8
Kipling, Trix (Alice) (later Fleming) (sister), 6–7, 9, 42, 43–4, 66–7; admirers and suitors, 238, 244; appearance, 150; birth, 42; and brother’s writing, 150–1; childhood in Bombay, 45–6; engagement and marriage to Fleming, 266–8, 290, 345; feelings of betrayal at parents’ abandonment, 68; gift for languages, 46; The Heart of a Maid, 268, 344–5; Kipling’s protectiveness towards, 216–17; and Lord Clandeboye, 227, 238–9; at Lorne Lodge (Southsea), 65, 67, 71, 92; mental breakdown, 344, 346; ‘My Brother Rudyard Kipling’, 67; overshadowing of by mother, 189–90; A Pinchbeck Goddess, 345; rejoins family in Lahore, 122; relationship with brother, 42, 150–1, 216; and second sight, 44; in Simla, 188–90; social standing, 190, 191; ‘Through Judy’s Eyes’, 47, 67, 69; visits brother in London, 310; marriage proposal from Robinson, 216–17, 234; wit of, 189
kite-flying, 291
Kotgarh, 186, 187
Ladies Home Journal, 2
‘Ladies, The’, 308
Lady Aitchison Hospital for Women in Lahore, 240
Lahore, 77–80, 280; antique cannon, 81–2; British settlement of and building construction, 79–81; description, 78–9; Europeans in, 83; garden-enclosed tombs, 77; Kipling in, 119–22, 128, 148–9, 150, 155–6, 160, 164, 258–9; Kipling revisits, 319; staging of Punjab Exhibition of Arts and Industry, 80–1, 81; typhoid outbreak, 168
Lahore Amateurs, 150, 155
Lahore Museum, 77, 81–2, 108, 176, 357
Land and Sea Tales for Scouts and Guides, 5
Lang, Andrew, 173, 228, 301
Lang, John, 150; Who Was the Child?, 215
Lansdowne, Lord, 271, 327
‘Law of the Jungle, The’, 333
Lawrence, Sir John, 78, 137
Lawrence, Walter, 185–6, 227, 327
Lawrie, Dr, 188, 195
Learoyd, Lieutenant Jack, 213, 222
Leitner, Dr Gottlieb Wilhelm, 114–15, 126
Leland, Charles, 98
‘Lesson, The’, 106
‘Levéety in the Plains’, 221–2
Life’s Handicap; Being stories of Mine Own People, xviii, 310, 314
Light that Failed, The, 5, 310–11, 312, 315, 338
Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, 2, 312
‘Little Tobrah’, 258–9
Lodge Hope and Perseverance, 213
‘Long Trail, The’, 318–19, 322
Longfellow, Henry, 98
‘Loot’, 306, 307
‘Lord Ripon’s Reverie’, 132, 173
‘Love-o’-Women’, 223
‘Lovers’ Litany, The’, 139
Low, Stephen, 298–9
Lumsden, Harry, 208
Lyall, Sir Alfred, 34, 52, 53, 72, 176
Lycett, Andrew: Rudyard Kipling, x-xi
Lytton, Earl of (Robert Bulwer), 86, 87–8, 89–90, 91, 108–9, 129, 137, 142, 337
Macaulay: Minute of Education, 256
McClure’s Magazine, 2, 338, 352
Macdonald, Agnes see Poynter, Agnes
Macdonald, Alice see Kipling, Alice
Macdonald, Edith, 31, 41, 43, 93, 101; Kipling’s letters to, 133, 148–9, 150, 151–2, 157–8, 160, 163, 164–5, 166, 169, 174, 191, 192–3
Macdonald, Fred, 16, 18, 32, 43, 110
Macdonald, Georgie see Burne-Jones, Georgie
Macdonald, Harry, 17
Macdonald, Louisa see Baldwin, Louisa Mackail, Angela, 343
Mackail, Jack, 259, 351
Maclean, James, 27,
28, 29
Macmillan, George, 302
Macmillan’s Magazine, 2, 299–300, 303
‘Madness of Private Ortheris, The’, 223, 236
Madras, 23, 87
Magh Mela festival, 245
Mahabharata, 255
‘Man Who Would be King, The’, 214, 277–80
‘Mandalay’, 306–7
Marathas of the Deccan, 23, 25
‘Mark of the Beast, The’, 228
‘Masque of Plenty, The’, 283
Mayo, Lord: assassination of, 59, 77
Mayo School of Industrial Art (Lahore), 77, 82, 108, 176, 184
‘Merrow Down’, 349
Mian Mir, 156, 218, 220, 222
military executions, 153–4
Military Lodge of Mian Mir, 213
Milner, Lord, 341
‘Miracle of Purun Bhagat, The’, 331–2, 333
‘Mister Anthony Dawking’, 160
Mohurram, festival of, 280
Montgomery Hall (Lahore), 114, 127
Montgomery, Sir Robert, 78
‘Moon of Other Days, The’, 148, 168, 176–7
Moore, Dr William, 33–4
Moreau, Émile Édouard, 254, 319
Morning Post, 3
‘Morning Ride, A’, 122–3
Morris, Jenny, 100
Morris, Mowbray, 299, 300
Morris, William, 17, 41, 94, 98
‘Mother Lodge, The’, 214
Mother Maturin, 172, 179, 191, 238, 291–2, 304, 350
‘Mowgli’s Brothers’, 326, 330
‘Mrs Hauksbee’ character, 75, 231, 232
‘Mrs Riever’ character, 271
Muir, Jean, 229
Muir, Sir William, 246
Müller, Max, 358
Multan, siege of (1818), 82
‘Mulvaney’, 221
Murray, Gilbert, 68
music halls, 297–8
Mussoorie, 86, 262
‘My Rival’, 189–90
‘My Son Jack’, 364
Nassik, 60–1, 66
National Observer, 298, 318
National Trust, 10
Naulahka: A Story of East and West, The, 158–9, 315–16, 322
New York Tribune, 309
Nicholson, John, 129
North Western Provinces and Oude (NWP), 246, 247
North-West Frontier, 354
Northbrook, Lord, 87
Northumberland Fusiliers, 220, 275–6
‘Nursery Rhymes for Little Anglo-Indians’, 162, 167
‘Old Song, An’, 229
O’Meara, Miss, 142
‘On the City Wall’, 211, 280–2
‘On Fort Duty’, 156
‘On Greenhow Hill’, 151, 309, 311
‘One Viceroy Resigns’, 271–2
‘Only a Subaltern’, 219
‘Oonts’, 306
Opium War (1840), 25
Orme: Military Transactions of the British Nation in Indostan, 275
Ortheris, Stanley, 222
Orwell, George, 4, 52
Osborne House, 311
‘Overheard’, 102
Owen, Wilfred, 217
‘Pagett, MP’, 225–6, 284
Palace of Truth, The, 155
Pandey, Mangal, 287
‘Parade Song of the Camp-Animals’, 184
Parsees, in Bombay, 24–5, 28
Patiala, 158
Payne, James, 303
peasantry, Indian: Government Commission on, 283
Peliti, F., 141
Peshawar, 180–1
‘Phantom ‘Rickshaw, The’, 199–200
Philip, J. Birnie, 16
Pioneer, x, 118, 151, 186, 213, 230, 235, 236–8, 251, 289, 294; and Blavatsky episode, 143; campaign against Indian National Congress, 286, 287; Kipling as correspondent in Allahabad, 247–8, 254; Kipling’s political squibs, 259, 270–1; Lockwood Kipling at, x, 55–6, 85; personal columns, 163; publishing of Kipling’s poems and stories in, 176–8, 233–4, 255
Pioneer Press, 54, 247
Plain Tales from the Hills, x, 118, 151, 186, 213, 230, 235, 236–8, 250, 289, 294
Plain Tales from the Raj (radio broadcast and book), xii
Plot and Passion (play), 150
Plowden, Chichele, 83
Plowden, Edith, 83–4, 86, 89, 90, 101; family background, 83–4; friendship and correspondence with the Kiplings, 83, 84–5, 110, 112, 113, 127–8, 176, 186, 311
Plowden, Henry, 83
Plowden, Richard, 84
Plowden, Trevor, 89
Plowden, Walter, 83
Poe, Edgar Allan, 98, 199
‘Possibilities’, 140
‘Potted Princes, The’ 47, 60–1, 323
Poynter, Agnes (née Macdonald), 17, 65
Poynter, Ambrose, 64
Poynter, Edward, 17
Pre-Raphaelites, 94, 98
Price, Cormell (‘Uncle Crom’), 7, 17, 94, 95, 96–7, 111, 126, 336, 339, 342, 344
‘Profundis, De’, 170–1
Puck of Pook’s Hill, 5, 363
Punch and Judy, 47, 48, 66
‘Pundits’, 358
Punjab, 77–8
Punjab Club (Lahore), 82–3, 128, 160, 165
Punjab Exhibition of Arts and Industry, 80–1, 81
Punjab Volunteers, 215
Quartette, 198–202, 203, 204
Rahman, Amir Abdur, 180, 182
Rajah Wilson see Wilson, Frederick
Rajputana, 247–8
Rawalpindi Durbar, 180–1, 218
Readymoney, Sir Cowasji Jehangir, 27
‘Recessional, The’, 2, 242, 342, 344
Rhodes, Cecil, 4, 341, 343
Ribbentrop, Berthold, 150
‘Rikki-Tikki-Tavi’, 273, 331, 332
Ripon, Lord, 109, 126, 129, 130, 132, 141, 158, 175, 202
Rivett-Carnac, Henry, 40, 41, 50, 62, 76–7
Roberts, General Sir Frederick, 153, 227, 229, 270, 271, 336, 351
Robinson Crusoe, 70
Robinson, Kay, 54, 126, 159, 160, 206–7, 209, 244, 257, 262, 266, 291; background, 205; dedication to by Kipling, 310; as editor of CMG, 233; falling out with Kipling over breach of trust, 6, 348; introduction of the ‘turnover’, 233; wanting to marry Trix, 216–17, 234; working on Allahabad Pioneer, 205
Robinson, Phil, 54–5, 72, 205, 233
Robinson, Reverend Julian, 50, 51–2, 54, 126, 205
Robinson’s Indian Garden Series, 54
Roosevelt, Theodore, 4
Rossetti, Christina, 98
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 17, 98
Rothney Castle (Simla), 142, 143
Royal Alfred Sailors’ Home (Bombay), 39
Royal Artillery, 156, 220
Royal College of Art, 16–17
Roychand, Premchand, 27
‘Rupaiyat of Omar Kal’vin, The’, 204
Ruskin, John, 17
Russia, 354
St James’s Gazette, 273, 298, 299
St Nicholas Magazine, 2, 47, 102, 323
St Thomas’s Cathedral (Bombay), 32
Sassoon, Sir David, 27
Saturday Review, 273, 294–5
Savile Club, 301, 302
Schoolboy Lyrics, 101, 112
Scots Observer, 309
Scribbler, 100
‘Servants of the Queen’, 184
Seven Seas, The, 341
Shah, Syed, 278
Shahdera Gardens (Lahore), 194
Shalimar Gardens (Lahore), 164
Sharp, William, 228
Sikh Wars (1840s), 221
Simla, xi, 89, 110, 115, 134–47, 185, 186–96, 226–30, 265; Anglo-Indian population, 134; construction of English summer houses, 136–7; description, 136; entertainment at Benmore, 139; journey to, 135; Kipling in, 134–47, 186, 187–8, 191–3, 226, 227, 229–30, 243–4, 265–72; Lytton’s modernisation schemes, 137–8; Old Burial Ground, 140; shops and hotels, 140–1; social scene, 191–2; Society, 138–9, 141–2, 187–8; as summer seat of government, 134, 137; unde
r Dufferin, 185–6
Simla Amateur Dramatic Club, 243
Simla Eclectic Society, 143
Singapore, 293
Singh, Bhai Ram, 328
Singh, Nikka, 161
Sinnett, A. P., 143
Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy School of Art (Bombay), 19, 27, 30, 32, 36, 39, 40, 62, 76, 120
‘Slaves of the Lamp’, 339
‘Smugglers, The’, 364
‘Snarleyow’, 221, 306
Snowden (Simla), 139, 242
Society of Authors, 273
Soldiers Three, 222–3, 236, 269, 294, 298, 300, 309
Soltykoff, Prince Alexis, 79
Something of Myself, 8, 10, 66, 69, 72, 117, 131, 166, 168, 170, 298, 313, 356–7
Song of the English, A, 350
‘Song of the Wise Children’, 36, 37–8
‘Song of the Women, The’, 257
South Kensington Museum, 16, 18, 19, 22
Spectator, 294
Stalky & Co, 6, 96, 105, 117, 339, 342
Statesman, 88
Steel, Flora Annie, 146, 324–5, 327, 328
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 319
Stewart, Major-General Sir Donald, 141
Stirling Castle (Simla), 144
Stoke School of Art, 16
Story of the Gadsbys, The, 260–1, 265
‘Story of Muhammad Din, The’, 212–13
‘Story of Paul Vaugel, The’, 106–7
‘Story of Tommy, The’, 153, 173
Strachey, Katherine (née Plowden), 84
Strachey, Sir John, 84
‘Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes, The’, 178, 201–2, 203, 228, 335
‘Suddhoo’, 179
Sullivan, Sir Arthur, 351
Sultan Sarai (Lahore), 208–9
Sundry Phansies writ by one Kipling, 106
Survey of India, 278, 358
Swinburne, Algernon, 98, 101
Symonds, John Addington, 294
‘Taking of Lungtungpen, The’, 223
Taylor, Carrie, 293, 294, 295, 304, 310, 313
Taylor, Philip Meadows, 53
Temple, Sir Richard, 87, 87–8
Terry, Wilkins, 32, 76, 120
Thacker, Spink and Co., 225, 235
‘That Day’, 335–6
Thirkell, Angela, 4, 348–9; Three Houses, 8
Thomas, George, 262