Professor Connell asks about similarities in Kipling and Saki. May I abstract the following from my work on nomenclature in Wilde, Conan Doyle, Kipling, Saki and others:
<<Rudyard Kipling’s naming is more opaque. He occasionally used names that are found elsewhere, but these have little overlap with either Wilde or Doyle. True, there is a man called Stavely in the story ‘Tiglath Pileser’ , a name used by Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray while Kipling’s Emanuel Pycroft shares a surname with Doyle’s Hall Pycroft . The name Youghal is that of a police inspector in Conan Doyle’s ‘The Mazarin Stone’ and of Miss Youghal in Plain Tales from the Hills, but Kipling really drew from a very different word-hoard, one more shared by Saki than by any other contemporary. Courtenay Youghal appears in The Unbearable Bassington, for example, and Kipling names like Golightly , Strickland, Tarrion, Gadsby, Bronckhorst, Schreiderling, Yardley Orde, Bagheera are kin with Saki names like Golackly, Stringham, Tarrington, Gortsby, Benaresq, Pennington, to say nothing of Sredni Vashtar. This was probably deliberate on Saki’s part.>>
The following may be fanciful, but I should welcome reactions:
<<Appledore Towers, the name of which suggests the Garden of the Hesperides, is the home of Doyle's Charles Augustus Milverton, 'the worst man in London' . Appledore is also the name of the Devon fishing village where the young Kipling, at school at Westward Ho!, first lost his own innocence. ‘Charles Augustus’ were the first names of Colonel Munro, the father of Saki. There is a Colonel Munro in ‘The Copper Beeches’; Colonel Charles Munro’s sister was Saki’s dreaded Aunt Augusta. Milverton is in Somerset on the railway line (then the Great Western) between Taunton and Barnstable, outside which the Munro family lived. At Barnstaple one changed trains for the Southern Railway line to Bideford for Westward Ho! and Appledore.>>
David Rose
D.C. Rose M.A. (Oxon), Dip Arts Admin (N.U.I.)
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