Kipling: Roundtable Discussion at Scott Farm
NAULAKHA, DUMMERSTON “Rudyard Kipling’s American years were the happiest, most inspired and productive time of his life,” Professor Fish said, before a dispute with his brother-in-law turned ugly. In this period he composed the two Jungle Books (1894, 1895), the first three Just So Stories (1897), and began thinking about his masterpiece Kim (1901). He also wrote the poems collected in The Seven Seas (1896), the short stories collected in The Day’s Work (1898), and much of his classic sea story Captains Courageous (1897). During a trip to England in 1894, Kipling wrote longingly of ‘a bottle of lager in the basement of Brooks House … There’s one Britisher at least homesick for a section of your depraved old land’. “Kipling remains one of the world’s most famous authors. Fans come from all over the world to stay at Naulakha, to sit at Kipling’s desk,” Carlin said, adding that the house is being used increasingly […]