These were first printed in the newspapers, and then published as books. In his spare time he penned poems and short stories.
Four years later he was back in India and working in Lahore as a journalist on two newspapers. The headmaster there was a friend of the family and encouraged Kipling’s interest in writing. Kipling hated his foster home, which he later referred to as the “House of Desolation”.Īt 12 he was sent to boarding school in Devon. The colourful sights and sounds – and freedoms- of India were sorely missed. When he was only five, Kipling and his sister, Alice, were taken back to England and left with foster parents in Southsea, where he attended a small private school. His father was an artist, who also taught at the city’s School of Art.
Joseph Rudyard Kipling was born in 1865 in Bombay, during the ‘British Raj’, the era when the subcontinent of India was part of the British Empire. During the 20th century, generations of children were tucked into bed with readings of highly imaginative and wildly improbably explanations such as how the elephant got his trunk. He wrote them down for publication as the Just So Stories in 1902, just three years after the tragic death of the daughter for whom they had first been invented. For more information email Kipling told his children gloriously fanciful tales of how things in the world came to be as they are. A high-quality version of this image can be purchased from British Library Images Online.
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