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Rudyard Kipling 1897–1899
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This chapter opens with the involvement of Cecil Rhodes in the failed Jameson Raid of 1895; on Kipling’s second visit to South Africa in 1898 he saw a great deal of Rhodes, travelling with him to the diamond mines at Kimberley, and on to the newly-acquired territory of Rhodesia, a journey that inspired two at least of the Just So stories. He became an ever-keener imperialist, and wrote, ‘The White Man’s Burden’. Mary Kingsley particularly disliked it. In this chapter Sir Edward Burne-Jones dies and six months later the Kiplings travel to New York, where Rudyard and Josephine, his beloved daughter, fall ill with pneumonia; Josephine dies. When war is declared in October 1899, Kipling leaps at the distraction from his profound grief, and rushes out a poem – ‘The Absent-Minded Beggar’ – to raise money for the servicemen being sent to South Africa and their dependents.
Title: Rudyard Kipling 1897–1899
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This chapter opens with the involvement of Cecil Rhodes in the failed Jameson Raid of 1895; on Kipling’s second visit to South Africa in 1898 he saw a great deal of Rhodes, travelling with him to the diamond mines at Kimberley, and on to the newly-acquired territory of Rhodesia, a journey that inspired two at least of the Just So stories.
He became an ever-keener imperialist, and wrote, ‘The White Man’s Burden’.
Mary Kingsley particularly disliked it.
In this chapter Sir Edward Burne-Jones dies and six months later the Kiplings travel to New York, where Rudyard and Josephine, his beloved daughter, fall ill with pneumonia; Josephine dies.
When war is declared in October 1899, Kipling leaps at the distraction from his profound grief, and rushes out a poem – ‘The Absent-Minded Beggar’ – to raise money for the servicemen being sent to South Africa and their dependents.
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