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“... in conjuring up a vision of national identity strikingly similar to that portrayed by his cousin Rudyard Kipling in Rewards and Fairies and Puck of Pook’s Hill. It was a vision rooted in personal rather than collective virtue, in intuition rather than reason, in rural patriarchalism rather than industrial efficiency, and in an intense emotional ...”

“... great children’s novelists,’ Inglis begins unequivocally, ‘are Lewis Carroll, Rudyard Kipling, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Arthur Ransome, William Mayne and Philippa Pearce.’) What they may be charged with is not treating this fact with the seriousness it deserves: not, indeed, considering even the possibility that it might be wise to ...”

“... in the Old Kent Road’. Walter Sickert was obsessed with music hall, and Rudyard Kipling modelled some of his ‘Barrack-Room Ballads’ on the songs he heard there. Bransby Williams delivered monologues from Shakespeare, Fielding and Dickens and bridged the gap between music hall and legitimate theatre by impersonating various ...”

“... engagement at 21 threw her father into despair. ‘And what do girls want with men,’ he wrote to Rudyard Kipling the day before the wedding. ‘Didn’t I flatter her enough, glare at her enough, fetch and carry and be abject enough?’ Margaret was not the only one of these golden girls whose determination to marry prompted Burne-Jones to expressions ...”

“... in 1918 still resolute that the allied cause was just. Charles Carrington, later a biographer of Rudyard Kipling, served for three years as an infantry officer in France. In 1975 he was moved to write to the historian Michael Howard by exasperation with Paul Fussell’s newly published The Great War and Modern Memory. Fussell, an American critic and ...”

“... harmonised bodies, appear in the writings of Henry James, Virginia Woolf (The Waves) and even Rudyard Kipling, as well as those of others mentioned by Luckhurst, such as Arthur Machen, Vernon Lee and Grant Allen. The concept of telepathy continually threatened to collapse distinctions between the literal and the figural, and the psychological and the ...”

“... wait his turn, he shouted furiously: ‘Do you know who I am?’ ‘Yes, I know who you are, Mr Rudyard bloody Kipling,’ returned the clerk, who had evidently been through this before, ‘and kindly wait your turn like the others.’ I fancy this story is well remembered, rather than strictly true – ...”

“... his son sauntered off to play golf before he had begun speaking; the tears of his scriptwriter, Rudyard Kipling, who tuned in to hear the king address those ‘so cut off by the snows, the desert or the sea, that only voices out of the air can reach them’.As his grandmother Victoria had used print to offer glimpses of Balmoral, in Leaves from the ...”

“... with exaggerated breasts and hips, seemed to support the notion. D.H. Lawrence, Robert Graves and Rudyard Kipling all picked up the idea, so that by the early 20th century, Mircea Eliade commented: ‘A “search for the Mother” had become a major component of the “unconscious nostalgias of the Western intellectual”.’ The only such figurine found ...”

“... with the frightful language, the debased dialect, of the fictitious proletarians of Mr Rudyard Kipling and other genteel writers’. In reality Davies’s background wasn’t as proletarian as Shaw implies. When his father died and his mother remarried, William, his sister and his ‘imbecile brother’ were adopted by their grandparents, an ...”

“... was scarcely enough to rescue the government. A public collection for Dyer raised £26,000, with Rudyard Kipling contributing £10. There was, however, more than a little ambiguity about the inscription Kipling offered for a never completed memorial to Dyer: he ‘did his duty as he saw it’. Dyer died in 1927, after ...”

“... Newbolt, Owen Seaman, G.M. Trevelyan, H.G. Wells and Israel Zangwill (Arthur Quiller-Couch and Rudyard Kipling sent messages of support). At first glance, this may seem to be the literary and intellectual establishment in its pomp. Reference works and biographies make it plain that these figures could collectively boast a remarkable level of official ...”

“... by a Cross of Sacrifice – an elongated cross usually set on an octagonal base, with what Rudyard Kipling, the CWGC’s literary adviser, called a ‘stark sword brooding on [its] bosom’. ‘Their name liveth for evermore’, a text Kipling chose from Ecclesiasticus, appears at the larger war cemeteries. Such ...”

“... will have cottoned on to this subterfuge by now.30 May. A poem for Boris. ‘A Dead Statesman’, Rudyard Kipling (from ‘Epitaphs of the War 1914-18’):I could not dig: I dared not rob:Therefore I lied to please the mob.Now all my lies are proved untrueAnd I must face the men I slew.What tale shall serve me here amongMine angry and defrauded young?3 ...”

“... had degrees in theology and medicine and greatly admired Queen Victoria, the British Empire and Rudyard Kipling. He believed that the ‘blighting evils’ of his time, ‘mobs that torture human beings and roast them alive without trial; mobs who shoot down women and children; mobs who take possession of the streets of … cities, shooting down ...”