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The Unforgiving Minute: A Life of Rudyard Kipling.(Review)
From: Contemporary Review
Date: 19990801
Author:Whittington-Egan, Richard
Harry Ricketts. Chatto & Windus. [pounds]25.00. 434 pages. ISBN 0-7011-3744-4.
When, after his death aged seventy in 1936, the time came for the writing of Kipling's 'official life', not so much a fly as a giant hornet in the biographical ointment was his formidable and fussily post-mortem protective daughter, Mrs. Bambridge.
The author entrusted to perform the decent obsequies was the New Zealand novelist and biographer, Hector Bolitho. He and Mrs. B. did not chime. In his footsteps followed rapidly and were rapidly dismissed, 'Taffrail', distinguished writer of ...
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