![]() ![]() Kipling relocated to Allahbad and a bigger newspaper, The Pioneer, but was let go the next year. He also published multiple other short story collections that year. Many of these newspaper stories comprised his first book, Plain Tales from the Hills, published in 1888. This filled his insatiable writing appetite. The next year Kipling entered a military prep academy by the sea, in Devon, while Trix boarded at Southsea.Īfter Kipling failed to get a scholarship to Oxford in 1882, his father got him a job in Lahore as an assistant newspaper editor at The Civil and Military Gazette. When Kipling reached school age, he and his younger sister Alice, known as Trix, were sent back to England, to a boarding house They were abused, and though they visited their English relatives often, didn't speak of it until their mother collected them in 1877. The author's upbringing would often manifest in his works. ![]() As a boy, he happily listened to the stories of his Indian attendant and Portuguese nanny. World traveler and prolific writer Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay on December 30, 1865. ![]()
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