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[[Image:Kiplingsengland3.jpg|thumb|left|''Kipling's England'': Map of England Showing Kipling's Homes]] | [[Image:Kiplingsengland3.jpg|thumb|left|''Kipling's England'': Map of England Showing Kipling's Homes]] | ||
Towards the end of his stay at the school, it was decided that he lacked the academic ability to get into Oxford University on a scholarship<ref name=oxfordchildren/> and his parents lacked the wherewithal to finance him;<ref name=gilmour/> consequently, Lockwood Kipling obtained a job for his son in | Towards the end of his stay at the school, it was decided that he lacked the academic ability to get into Oxford University on a scholarship<ref name=oxfordchildren/> and his parents lacked the wherewithal to finance him;<ref name=gilmour/> consequently, Lockwood Kipling obtained a job for his son in Lahore (now in Pakistan), where Lockwood was now Principal of the [[National College Of Arts, Lahore|Mayo College of Art]] and Curator of the [[Lahore Museum]]. Kipling was to be [[sub-editor|assistant editor]] of a small local newspaper, the ''Civil & Military Gazette''. | ||
He sailed for India on 20 September 1882 and arrived in Bombay on 18 October 1882. He described this moment years later: "So, at sixteen years and nine months, but looking four or five years older, and adorned with real whiskers which the scandalised Mother abolished within one hour of beholding, I found myself at Bombay where I was born, moving among sights and smells that made me deliver in the vernacular sentences whose meaning I knew not. Other Indian-born boys have told me how the same thing happened to them."<ref name=autobio/> This arrival changed Kipling, as he explains, "There were yet three or four days’ rail to Lahore, where my people lived. After these, my English years fell away, nor ever, I think, came back in full strength".<ref name=autobio/> | He sailed for India on 20 September 1882 and arrived in Bombay on 18 October 1882. He described this moment years later: "So, at sixteen years and nine months, but looking four or five years older, and adorned with real whiskers which the scandalised Mother abolished within one hour of beholding, I found myself at Bombay where I was born, moving among sights and smells that made me deliver in the vernacular sentences whose meaning I knew not. Other Indian-born boys have told me how the same thing happened to them."<ref name=autobio/> This arrival changed Kipling, as he explains, "There were yet three or four days’ rail to Lahore, where my people lived. After these, my English years fell away, nor ever, I think, came back in full strength".<ref name=autobio/> | ||
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It was also in this cottage that the first dawnings of the ''Jungle Books'' came to Kipling: "workroom in the Bliss Cottage was seven feet by eight, and from December to April the snow lay level with its window-sill. It chanced that I had written a tale about Indian Forestry work which included a boy who had been brought up by wolves. In the stillness, and suspense, of the winter of ’92 some memory of the [[Freemasonry|Masonic]] Lions of my childhood’s magazine, and a phrase in [[Rider Haggard|Haggard’s]] ''Nada the Lily'', combined with the echo of this tale. After blocking out the main idea in my head, the pen took charge, and I watched it begin to write stories about [[Mowgli]] and animals, which later grew into the ''[[The Jungle Book (disambiguation)|Jungle Books]]''".<ref name=autobio/> With Josephine's arrival, ''Bliss Cottage'' was felt to be congested, so eventually the couple bought land—{{#ifeq:|on|<span style="display:none">{{padleft:10|16|0}}</span>}}{{convert/acre|10|{{#ifeq:{{#expr:m2*0}}|0|0}}|m2||||r={{#ifeq:{{{sp}}}|us|er|re}}|d=LoffAoffDbSoff|s=}} on a rocky hillside overlooking the [[Connecticut River]]—from Carrie's brother Beatty Balestier, and built their own house. | It was also in this cottage that the first dawnings of the ''Jungle Books'' came to Kipling: "workroom in the Bliss Cottage was seven feet by eight, and from December to April the snow lay level with its window-sill. It chanced that I had written a tale about Indian Forestry work which included a boy who had been brought up by wolves. In the stillness, and suspense, of the winter of ’92 some memory of the [[Freemasonry|Masonic]] Lions of my childhood’s magazine, and a phrase in [[Rider Haggard|Haggard’s]] ''Nada the Lily'', combined with the echo of this tale. After blocking out the main idea in my head, the pen took charge, and I watched it begin to write stories about [[Mowgli]] and animals, which later grew into the ''[[The Jungle Book (disambiguation)|Jungle Books]]''".<ref name=autobio/> With Josephine's arrival, ''Bliss Cottage'' was felt to be congested, so eventually the couple bought land—{{#ifeq:|on|<span style="display:none">{{padleft:10|16|0}}</span>}}{{convert/acre|10|{{#ifeq:{{#expr:m2*0}}|0|0}}|m2||||r={{#ifeq:{{{sp}}}|us|er|re}}|d=LoffAoffDbSoff|s=}} on a rocky hillside overlooking the [[Connecticut River]]—from Carrie's brother Beatty Balestier, and built their own house. | ||
Kipling named the house "Naulakha" in honour of Wolcott and of their collaboration, and this time the name was spelled correctly.<ref name=gilmour/> From his early years in | Kipling named the house "Naulakha" in honour of Wolcott and of their collaboration, and this time the name was spelled correctly.<ref name=gilmour/> From his early years in Lahore (1882-87), Kipling had become enthused by the [[Mughal architecture]]<ref>Robert D. Kaplan (1989) [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DEFD91039F93AA15752C0A96F948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all Lahore as Kipling Knew It]. The New York Times. Retrieved on 9 March 2008</ref> especially the [[Naulakha pavilion]] situated in [[Lahore Fort]], which eventually became an inspiration for the title of his novel as well as the house.<ref>Kipling, Rudyard (1996) Writings on Writing. [[Cambridge University Press]]. ISBN 0-521-44527-2. see p. 36 and p. 173</ref> The house still stands on Kipling Road, three miles (5 km) north of Brattleboro in [[Dummerston, Vermont|Dummerston]]: a big, secluded, dark-green house, with shingled roof and sides, which Kipling called his "ship", and which brought him "sunshine and a mind at ease."<ref name=gilmour/> His seclusion in Vermont, combined with his healthy "sane clean life", made Kipling both inventive and prolific. | ||
[[Image:Kiplingseastcoast2.JPG|thumb|left|Rudyard Kipling's America 1892–1896, 1899]] | [[Image:Kiplingseastcoast2.JPG|thumb|left|Rudyard Kipling's America 1892–1896, 1899]] | ||