![]() ![]() ![]() When these were collected and published as books, they formed the basis of his early fame. ![]() In his limited spare time he wrote many remarkable poems and stories which were published alongside his reporting. In 1882, aged sixteen, he returned to Lahore, where his parents now lived, to work on the Civil and Military Gazette, and later on its sister paper the Pioneer in Allahabad. Despite poor eyesight which handicapped him on the games field, he began to blossom. , based on those schooldays, has been much relished by generations of schoolboys. When he was twelve he went to the United Services College at Westward Ho! near Bideford, where the Headmaster, Cormell Price, a friend of his father and uncles, fostered his literary ability. The experience would colour some of his later writing. But at the tender age of five he was sent back to England to stay with a foster family in Southsea, where he was desperately unhappy. Young Rudyard's earliest years were blissfully happy in an India full of exotic sights and sounds. His mother was one of the talented and beautiful Macdonald sisters, four of whom married remarkable men: Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Sir Edward Poynter, Alfred Baldwin and John Lockwood Kipling himself. Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay on December 30th, son of John Lockwood Kipling, an artist and teacher of architectural sculpture and his wife Alice. ![]()
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