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== Childhood and early life == | == Childhood and early life == | ||
[[Image:Malabarpoint governmenthouse bombay.jpg|thumb|right|[[Malabar Hill|Malabar Point]], | [[Image:Malabarpoint governmenthouse bombay.jpg|thumb|right|[[Malabar Hill|Malabar Point]], Bombay, 1865]] | ||
Rudyard Kipling was born '''Joseph Rudyard Kipling''' on 30 December 1865 in Bombay, in India which was part of the British Empire then, to [[MacDonald sisters, daughters of George Browne MacDonald|Alice Kipling (née MacDonald)]] and [[John Lockwood Kipling|(John) Lockwood Kipling]].<ref name=carrington/> Alice Kipling (one of four remarkable Victorian sisters)<ref> Flanders, Judith. 2005. ''A Circle of Sisters: Alice Kipling, Georgiana Burne-Jones, Agnes Poynter, and Louisa Baldwin''. W.W. Norton and Company, New York. ISBN 0-393-05210-9</ref> was a vivacious woman<ref name=gilmour>Gilmour, David. 2002. ''The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling'', Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, New York.</ref> about whom a future [[Viceroy of India]] would say, "Dullness and Mrs. Kipling cannot exist in the same room."<ref name=rutherford/> Lockwood Kipling, a sculptor and pottery designer, was the principal and professor of architectural sculpture at the newly-founded [[Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy|Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy]] School of Art and Industry in Bombay.<ref name=gilmour/> | Rudyard Kipling was born '''Joseph Rudyard Kipling''' on 30 December 1865 in Bombay, in India which was part of the British Empire then, to [[MacDonald sisters, daughters of George Browne MacDonald|Alice Kipling (née MacDonald)]] and [[John Lockwood Kipling|(John) Lockwood Kipling]].<ref name=carrington/> Alice Kipling (one of four remarkable Victorian sisters)<ref> Flanders, Judith. 2005. ''A Circle of Sisters: Alice Kipling, Georgiana Burne-Jones, Agnes Poynter, and Louisa Baldwin''. W.W. Norton and Company, New York. ISBN 0-393-05210-9</ref> was a vivacious woman<ref name=gilmour>Gilmour, David. 2002. ''The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling'', Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, New York.</ref> about whom a future [[Viceroy of India]] would say, "Dullness and Mrs. Kipling cannot exist in the same room."<ref name=rutherford/> Lockwood Kipling, a sculptor and pottery designer, was the principal and professor of architectural sculpture at the newly-founded [[Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy|Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy]] School of Art and Industry in Bombay.<ref name=gilmour/> | ||
