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From: The Spectator
Date: 19990130
Author:Gilmour, David

THE UNFORGIVING MINUTE:

A LIFE OF RUDYARD KIPLING

by Harry Ricketts

Chatto, L25, pp. 500

Rudyard Kipling disliked biographies, denouncing them as a form of `Higher Cannibalism' which served its victims up `filleted or spiced' and usually 'high'. Determined to thwart aspiring cannibals looking hungrily at himself, he burnt his correspondents' letters and any of his own that he could find, a process continued by his widow who purchased Kipling letters from impecunious recipients in order to destroy them. Their surviving daughter, Elsie Bambridge, was obstructive in another way. Realising ...

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