Rudyard Kipling, A Life by The Editors of New Word City

Author:The Editors of New Word City
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, BIOGRAPHY &#038
ISBN: 9781612302164
Publisher: New Word City, Inc.
Published: 2011-12-16T04:30:00+00:00

Kipling and Carrie steamed off to Japan aboard the Empress of India (an “auspicious name,” Kipling crowed). They spent several months in Yokohama, with side trips to Tokyo and Nikko, but then calamity struck: Their Japanese bank failed, wiping out their entire savings of 2,000 pounds. Luckily, the local branch of Thomas Cook refunded their unused tickets for the rest of the cruise. Giving up on the honeymoon, they went back to Vermont and a new life in America.

The American Idyll

Kipling’s four years in the United States can be seen as an effort to find a home for a man who was truly comfortable nowhere. He and Carrie lived in a rented house, Bliss Cottage, while they built their own large and comfortable home, called Naulakha (the correct spelling this time) in memory of Wolcott, on the plot they had already bought. Their first daughter, Josephine, was born; a second, Elsie, would follow four years later.

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