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The Feng-shui that gave Kipling the jitters The large, sun-lit rooms of Rock House look out across gardens that reach down to the sea. So why did the author flee it in such a fluster? Ross Clark finds out

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From: The Sunday Telegraph London
Date: 20071125
Author:By Ross Clark

The blue plaque on Rock House at Maidencombe, just north of Torquay, states that "Rudyard Kipling lived here from 1896 to 1898". But what it should really say was that Kipling got the jitters here. A century before feng shui became popular among British middle class homeowners, Rudyard Kipling discovered for himself that a large villa in beautiful grounds overlooking a fine stretch of coast in one of Britain's sunniest places is no guarantee of happiness if there is something about the property which to you doesn't feel quite right.

Kipling wrote in his memoirs, Something of Myself, the house ...

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