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RUDYARD KIPLINGA LifeBy HARRY RICKETTSCarroll & Graf Publishers, Inc.Copyright © 1999 Harry Ricketts. All rights reserved.ISBN: 0-7867-0711-9Chapter One Ruddy is ComingKipling adored his parents.    His mother, Alice Macdonald, was lively, witty and talented; in a JaneAusten novel she would have been called accomplished. She wrote andpublished poems, arranged songs, sang and sewed and knew how to run ahousehold. Her racy, gossipy letters captured acquaintances and socialsituations in phrases that flickered between mischief and malice. Frederic,her younger brother, thought her `keen, quick and versatile' beyond anyonehe had ever known. She `saw things at a glance,' he recalled, `and dispatchedthem in a word'. Her poems showed another side, revealing adeep strain of melancholy, which she shared with her mother and three ofher four sisters.    Alice also had a flair for family melodramatics. Packing up on one ofthe Macdonalds' triennial moves her father was a Methodist minister shecame across an envelope containing a lock of John Wesley's hair.`See!' she exclaimed, throwing the holy relic on the fire. `A hair of thedog that bit us!' She liked to startle the

Who reads Rudyard Kipling : a life?

Author

Harry Ricketts

Publisher

Carroll & Graf Publishers

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780786707119

Category

biography

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Memoir

Rating

3.97 / 5 (30 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14