Rudyard Kipling
...made. In 1894 Rudyard wrote the original Jungle Book. The Jungle Book is about a young boy who is trying to make it home from the jungle. He meets talking animals who teach him lessons of life. Rudyard came up with this story because when he was young he lived in India around the jungle. Many of Rudyard’s writings, stories, and novel’s came from his life experiences and unusual childhood.
Joseph Rudyard Kipling was born on December 30, 1865, in Bombay. John Lockwood Kipling, Rudyard’s dad, was the head of department of agriculture of sculpture at an Art industry in Bombay. The art museum was called the Institute of Applied Art. Alice Kipling, Rudyard’s mother, was a stay at home mom. Kipling’s parents called themselves 'Anglo-Indians', that is a 19th Century term for British living in India. Rudyard got his first name Joseph from his grandfather. He got his middle name Rudyard because of Lake Rudyard where his parents met. Rudyard’s mother came from a well-known family where maids and servants were common.
Rudyard had an Ayah, an Indian nurse that he was very close to. She had a lot of power and Rudyard looked up to her. When Kipling was six he moved from India to Southsea, England with his three year old sister Alice (Trix) for military school. While they were in England they had foster parents, Captain Holloway and Mrs. Holloway. Rudyard and Trix did not like their foster parents they thought they were mean. Later in Rudyard’s life he talks about the Holloways in a book. Mrs. Holloway wanted Trix to marry their younger son. The Kipling’s did have relatives that lived in England and they spent a month each Christmas with their aunt Georgiana and her husband, Edward Burne-Jones. In the spring of 1877 Alice Kipling removed Rudyard and Trix from military school. Kipling said about his aunt,
“Often and often afterwards, the beloved...
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