Kipling Biography

Father, John Lokwood Kipling, received the position of professor of architecture and sculpture in a local art school. The mother of the future writer, Alice, came from the family of a methodist priest George Brown McDonald. The McDonald family became famous for the marriages of her daughters with prominent figures of the Victorian era: Georgiana married an artist-Prefaetaelite Edward Burn-Jones, and Agnes-the artist Edward Pointer, who later became president of the Royal Academy of Arts.

Kipling spent the early and very happy years in India, having managed to love this country forever, but according to the then tradition of education and training, he was sent to England. From five to eleven years old, along with his younger sister, he lived in Portsmut in a private boarding house, which contained a former captain of the merchant fleet, Price E. Halloway with his wife Sarah.

They turned out to be cruel and indifferent people, often punished the boy, and until the end of his life the writer recalled this time with horror and indignation. In the spring of the year, the mother took the children from the boarding house, and soon Kipling was placed in a private Devonian school for boys, where they were prepared for admission to the prestigious military academy.

The myopia did not allow Kipling to become a military man, but during his studies in Devon he began to write - the director of the school, Kormell Price, a friend of his father Kipling, encouraged the boy’s love for literature in every possible way. In October, Kipling returned to India and worked as a journalist for seven years, first in the “Civil and Military Newspaper” in Lahore, then in the larger newspaper Pioneer, published in Allahabad.

Along with reports, he wrote short stories and poems, published several books that brought him the recognition of readers. Then, in Calcutta, a collection of stories “Plain Tales from the Hills” “Simple Tales from the Himstyan country” was published, each story was preceded by a poetic epigraph; This technique has become Kipling's hallmark - he used it all his life. In the year, as a correspondent of Pioneer, he visited Burma, China, Japan, traveled through all the United States on this trip Kipling met Mark Twain, who made a great impression on the young writer.

In the fall of the year, Kipling, deciding that he should declare himself in the literary center of the British Empire, came to London. In the year, his first novel “The Light Said” “The Light that Failed” was released, which was coolly met by criticism, but was loved by readers. Redyard Kipling is like a fairy tale! In the year, Kipling married his late friend, American writer and publisher Walcott Belier, Carolina.

The planted father at the wedding was Henry James. The two of their daughters - Josephine and Elsie were born here. At this time, Kipling began to write for children. The stories that he composed for his eldest daughter Josephine made up the famous stories of the short stories “The Jungle Book Book”, and the second book of the jungle “The Second Jungle Book”, the collections brought him recognition and glory in his homeland and around the world.

The action of books takes place in India, where in impassable jungle the family of wolves brings up the “human cub” Mowgli. The boy has two faithful friends: a bear Balu and Panther Bagire, who teach him the "Law of the Jungle", as well as a terrible enemy, Tiger Sherkhan, threatening and Mowgli and everyone who is dear to him. In the collections there are stories that are not related to the main plot, the most famous-“Ricki-Tikki-Tavi”, but the readers especially fell in love with the story of Mowgli.

Kipling began to receive letters from his young fans from all over the world and answered with pleasure. Interestingly, the author of the first illustrations for the "Book of the Jungle" was the father of the writer, John Lokwood Kipling. In the four years spent in Vermont, Kipling also created the story “Brave sailors” “Captains Couraageus”, and published the poetic collection of “Seven Seven” “The Seven Seas”, in the year the kiplings returned to England.

The next year, the son John was born. The writer traveled around the country and the world, visited South Africa, where he made friends with Cecil Rhodes, a South African politician, an active figure in the English colonial expansion. Kipling shared Rhodes's views, fully supported the expansionist policy of Britain. At the same time, Kipling created the novel “Kim” “KIM”, a book about the openness of man and people.

May Miturich in the year, during a visit to the United States, the writer and his eldest daughter fell ill with pneumonia. Kipling recovered, but Josephine died, which became a heavy blow for him. In memory of his daughter, he began to work on a new children's book, which came out in the year called “just fairy tales” “Just So Stories”. In the year, Joseph Redyard Kipling finally found his homeland in England: he bought a country house in the county of Sasssex, where he lived until the end of his days.

In the second of these books, one of Kipling's most famous poems was published, written in the year, “if ...” “if ...”; It is considered the brightest expression of the Stoicism of the Victorian era.According to the results of the survey conducted by the Air Force in the year, “if ...” was called the most popular English poem. Alexandra Semenov in the year Kipling awarded the Nobel Prize in literature “For observation, vivid fantasy, maturity of ideas and an outstanding talent of the narrator”, and he still remains the youngest writer awarded this award.

The death of his son John in the First World War was a heavy blow to Kipling, in metro, the work in the military burial commission, which was responsible for the preservation of English military graves around the world, was subsequently. Kipling continued his literary activity before the beginning of the 10ths, although with less enthusiasm and less and less successfully.

There is now a museum in his house in the Eastern Sussex. Tatyana Sugachkova Kipling’s book, especially children's, are still loved and popular all over the world, they are constantly reprinted and have been repeatedly filmed. The most famous cartoon Walt Disney “The Book of the Jungle” of the year, by the way, it was the last cartoon in the creation of which Disney himself participated.

In the same year, the first part of the Soviet animated series “Mowgli” directed by Roman Davydov was released. The Soviet Mowgli consists of five parts removed in years. The image of the writer in the cinema at different times was embodied by such actors as Paul Scardon “The Adventures of Mark Twain”, and Christopher Plammer “The Man who wanted to be a king”, tell me about the first six years of the child’s life, and I will tell you everything else.

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