/Dear Peter/,
VMT (Royal Navy signalese for 'very many thanks') for your trouble
- I haven't been through all he links, but will do so. Of course,
Aubrey House was the school where young John Kipling went to school from
the age of about eight to 13.
And yes, the allusion was to "1066 and All That" Over here, there
is currently a favourite series of children's books, also made into TV
programmes - "Horrible Histories: 'The Rotten Romans', 'The Terrible
Tudors', etc, etc., which my grandaughter enjoys - but my daughter is
currently reading to her from '1066 and All That' - and it goes down a
storm - being "funnier than the Horribles", so my grand-daughter says.
Yours,
/Alastair/
On 25/10/2013 00:26, Peter Borcherds wrote:
> 1. Following your note, I googled "Rudyard Kipling" "Aubrey Beardsley"
> 2. which generated several entries, see below: one of which appears to suggest they were cousins??
>
> PS "Answers on a single side of paper please!!" is reminiscent of "1066 and all that"
>
> 1.
> Illustrations by Rudyard Kipling - The Victorian Web<http://www.victorianweb.org/victorian/art/illustration/kipling/index.html>
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> <https://www.google.co.uk/#>
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> 19 Feb 2005 - Rudyard Kipling, who received the Nobel prize for literature in 1907, was... Kipling's work reveals the influence of Aubrey Beardsley and other ...
> 2.
> Aubrey House, Rottingdean. Aubrey Beardsley , cousin of Rudyard ...<http://www.geolocation.ws/v/W/File%3AAubrey%20House,%20Rottingdean%20-%20geograph.org.uk%20-%20227647.jpg/-/en>
> www.geolocation.ws/v/W/File%3AAubrey%20House...org.../-/ený
> <https://www.google.co.uk/#>
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> 28 Aug 2006 - England 1; Brighton & Hove 1. Add tag: Aubrey House, Rottingdean. Aubrey Beardsley , cousin of Rudyard Kipling was a frequent visitor.
> 3.
> Aubrey Beardsley | Come Step Back in Time<http://comestepbackintime.wordpress.com/tag/aubrey-beardsley/>
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> <https://www.google.co.uk/#>
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> 11 Mar 2013 - Posts about Aubrey Beardsley written by Come Step Back In Time. ...Hans Christian Anderson and Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) as well as for ...
> 4.
> Beardsley, Aubrey - Oak Knoll Books & Oak Knoll Press<http://www.oakknoll.com/results.php?s_Topic=BEARDSLEY%2C%20AUBREY&s_ShowPics=1>
> www.oakknoll.com/results.php?s...BEARDSLEY%2C%20AUBREY...ý
> <https://www.google.co.uk/#>
> * <http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:PN_ljR6N2mkJ:www.oakknoll.com/results.php%3Fs_Topic%3DBEARDSLEY%252C%2520AUBREY%26s_ShowPics%3D1+&cd=8&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk>
> Includes chapters on Wilde, Beardsley, Kipling and his important essay The Revival of Printing. Illustrated. Covers faded; foxed. Price: $ 25.00 other currencies ...
> 5.
> Aubrey Beardsley | The Book Haven<http://bookhaven.stanford.edu/tag/aubrey-beardsley/>
> [X]<https://plus.google.com/106408303810817746192>
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> <https://www.google.co.uk/#>
> * <http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:pZamyPIIBY8J:bookhaven.stanford.edu/tag/aubrey-beardsley/+&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk>
> by Cynthia Haven<https://plus.google.com/106408303810817746192> - in 125 Google+ circles<https://plus.google.com/106408303810817746192>
> 25 Mar 2012 - Posts Tagged 'Aubrey Beardsley' ... Walter Crane, AubreyBeardsley, Eric Gill, and Rudyard Kipling, as seen in the books of Frederic Leighton, ...
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> From: To exchange information and views on the life and work of Rudyard Kipling [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Alastair Wilson [[log in to unmask]]
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> Subject: Carrington Extracts - Query No. 2
>
> Here is an entry from the ‘Extracts’ (10 April 1893) ‘Rud goes to call on Mr. Beardsley’. (Those are Carrie’s own words, not a paraphrase by Carrington). The Kiplings were down in New York, and had, five days previously, met Mark Twain, Dean Howells and Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge: a very brilliant collection of American literati. Now here he is calling on ‘Mr. Beardsley’. Was this Aubrey Beardsley, the current decadent enfant terrible of the London artistic scene?
> I don’t have a biography of Beardsley, and his Wikipedia entry makes no mention of him visiting the USA. Or is there another Beardsley, possibly an American, who might have been of interest to Kipling in New York at this time? Googling ‘Beardsley’ makes no mention of any such, but of course that’s not conclusive. Of further interest, and muddying the water further, Carrington suggests (p. 215) that they did not meet until the following year, when Kipling was in London (“. . . struck up an acquaintance with Aubrey Beardsley, the new boy-genius who had just burst upon the town”).
> There’s nothing in Birkenhead about the apparent 1893 meeting: nor is there anything about Beardsley in Angus Wilson’s book, other than a single incidental reference. Lycett mentions a meeting in 1895, in London, but nothing earlier.
> Can anyone throw any light on this 1893 event, please?
> It is also of social interest that Kipling apparently called on Beardsley, and not the other way round. Assuming that it is indeed Aubrey whom he went to meet, then under normal circumstances, one would have expected Beardsley, as the younger man (by seven years), to have called on Kipling. But given Beardsley’s reputation, Carrie might not have been prepared to receive him: certainly in London Society and with an English wife, such might have been the case, but in New York, and with an American wife would the same have applied?
> Answers on a single side of paper please!!
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