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[September 9 2003]


KIPLING'S READING AND ITS SOURCES

Besant, Walter All in a Garden Fair Chatto & Windus London 1885
Novel mentioned in Something of Myself, p.65. See also Carrington 1955, p.81.
Bowles, G. Stewart A Gun Room Ditty Box Cassell & Co. London 1898
Kiplingesque verse and prose by naval sub-lieutenant. Preface by Lord Charles Beresford. Quoted in 'A Fleet in Being'
Brabourne, Lord Tales at Tea-time Routledge & Sons London

Fairy stories mentioned in Something of Myself p.7. Illustrated by William Brunton.
Culpeper, Nicholas See Walter H. Pollard.

1930

Dumaitre, Paule Ren Lannec 1781-1826 (OS) College de France Paris 1981
Revue du Palais de la dcouverte'. Special edition devoted to bicentennial conference on Ren Lannec (1781-1826), the physician who invented the stethoscope and who is mentioned in "Marklake Witches".
Ewing, Juliana H. Mary's Meadow & Letters from a Little Garden SPCK London 1886
Quoted in "Fairy Kist"
Froude, J.A. The Two Chiefs of Dunboy Longmans Green London 1889
An Irish Romance of the Last Century' mentioned in "A Fleet in Being", p.46.
Greenwood, James King Lion Ward Lock & Co. London

In 'Beeton's Historical Romances' and also serialised in the 'Boy's Own Paper'. Inspiration for the Jungle Books; see Something of Myself, p.8, Ricketts, 'The Unforgiving Minute' p.26 and the Kipling Journal, Jul.1956, p.4.
Haggard, H.Rider Nada the Lily Longmans, Green & Co. London 1892
Novel which gave Kipling the idea for Mowgli (See K's letters to Haggard edited by Cohen).
Harris, Joel Chandler Uncle Remus George Routledge & Sons London 1880
Quoted in "The United Idolaters". Illustrated by A.T.Elwes.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell Elsie Venner Chapman & Hall London 1879
Novel mentioned in "The Propagation of Knowledge".
Keats, John Works Fred. Warne & Co. London

Referred to in "Wireless".
Lannec, Ren See Paule Dumaitre.

1981

Marryat, Captain Peter Simple Macmillan & Co. London 1895

Palgrave, Francis Turner The Golden Treasury Oxford University Press London 1929
Contains 'High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire' by Jean Ingelow, source of title "My Son's Wife".
Parish , W D
and Helena Hall
A Dictionary of the Sussex Dialect and Collection of Provincialisms in Use in the County of Sussex. Gardner's of Bexhill London 1957
An expanded version by Helena Hall of a classic reference work originally published in 1875
Pollard, Walter H. Nicholas Culpeper - Physician and Astrologer Birmingham Medical Review
1930
Paper on Culpeper who figures in "A Doctor of Medicine" and "Wireless".
Scott, Sir Walter The Pirate Marcus Ward & Co. London 1879
Mentioned in Something of Myself and "Gow's Watch".
Stevenson and Osbourne The Wrong Box Longmans Green London 1907
Quoted in "The Vortex".
Surtees, Robert Smith Handley Cross Methuen London 1947

Surtees, Robert Smith Mr. Sponge's Sportng Tour Bradbury Agnew London 1891
Quoted in "Stalky" and "My Son's Wife".
Weygandt, Anne M. Kipling's Reading and Its Influence on His Poetry Univ. of Pennsylvania Press Philadelphia 1939



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