Rudyard Kipling: Difference between revisions

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 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/LoffAoffDbSoffNa|10|{{#ifeq:{{#expr:m2*0}}|0|0}}|m2||s=|r={{#ifeq:{{{sp}}}|us|er|re}}