Dear Geoff
The one documented rejection of which I am aware is
described by Andrew Lycett in his autobiography
"Rudyard Kipling". In Chapter Three 'Dusky Crew', p.83
(paperback edition) he relates that one of RK's poems,
written whilst still a schoolboy at USC, titled "The
Dusky Crew" was rejected by Mary Mapes Dodge, editor
of the American "St Nicholas Magazine" in August 1879.
You can find the poem in Andrew Rutherford's "Early
Verse by Rudyard Kipling 1879-1889", and also in
"Schoolboy Lyrics" (1881) and some of the collected
editions.
With best regards
David
--- Geoff Maloney <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Dear
All
>
> Thank you very much for the comments I received back
> on "With the Night
> Mail" - both enlightening and challenging and it
> has given me much to think
> about. So I 'd like to pose another question, a
> difficult one I think. I
> was first interested in Kipling because of what he
> could tell me about the
> way the British lived in India. Of course, there
> were others sources - the
> most brilliant one I think, John Beames, "Memoirs of
> a Bengal Civilian",
> although I don't know why it wasn't called "Memoirs
> of a Bengal Civil
> Servant" Change in the use of language I suppose.
>
> Being a published short story writer myself, I find
> myself now very
> interested in Kipling as a writer. While, I loved
> "Kim", Kipling seems to
> stand out as the great short story writer in the
> English language.
>
> So my difficult question is: Did Kipling ever get
> rejected from the
> magazines that he submitted to? And if he did, do we
> know about how he
> reacted to that?
>
> I have read Angus Wilson's biography and thoroughly
> enjoyed it, but there
> might be others that really get inside Kipling as a
> writer.
>
> regards
>
>
>
> Geoffrey Maloney
> Brisbane, Australia
>
>
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