Amis, Kingsley  Rudyard Kipling  Thames and Hudson 1975 (0-500-26019-2); Scribner 1975 (0-684-14550-2)

Birkenhead, Lord  Rudyard Kipling  Hutchinson 1978; Random House 1978 (0-394-50315-5)

Carrington, Charles  Rudyard Kipling - His Life and Work  Macmillan 1955

Fido, Martin  Rudyard Kipling - An Illustrated Biography  Hamlyn 1974 (0-600-50116-7); Viking 1974 (0-670-61026-7);
P. Bedrick 1986 (0-87226-049-6)

Laski, Margharita  From Palm to Pine - Rudyard Kipling Abroad and at Home Sidgwick and Jackson 1987 (0-283-99422-3);
Facts on File (0-8160-1688-7)

Mason, Philip  Kipling: The Glass, the Shadow, and the Fire  Jonathan Cape 1975 (0-224-01128-6); Harper & Row 1975
(0-06-012833-X)

McAveeney, David  Kipling in Gloucester, the writing of 'Captains Courageous'  The Curious Traveller Press (Gloucester Mass.)
1996 (0-9625660-4-7)

Pinney, Thomas (ed.) Something of Myself and other Autobiographical Writings  Cambridge 1990 (0-521-35515-X), paper
1991 (0-521-40584-X)

Ricketts, Harry  The Unforgiving Minute, A Life of Rudyard Kipling  Chatto and Windus 1999

Shanks, Edward  Rudyard Kipling, a Study in Literature and Political Ideas  MacMillan 1940;
Cooper Square 1971 (0-8154-0344-5)

Thurston Hopkins, R  Rudyard Kipling - The Story of a Genius  Palmer 1930

Wilson, Angus  The Strange Ride of Rudyard Kipling  Secker and Warburg 1977 (0-435-57516-7); Viking Penguin 1978
(0-670-67701-9), paper 1979 (0-14-005122-8)
 
 

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Reference Books

Orel, H  A Kipling Chronology  Macmillan 1990 (0-8161-9090-9)

Page, N  A Kipling Companion  Macmillan 1984

Young, WA &

McGivering, J  A Kipling Dictionary  Macmillan 1967
 
 

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Books about the Family

Ankers, A.R.  The Pater  Pond View Books 1988; St Mut 1988 (1-871044-00-6)

Baldwin, A.W.  The Macdonald Sisters  Peter Davies 1960

Fitzgerald, P.  Edward Burne-Jones  Hamish Hamilton 1975; Joseph 1975 (0-7181-1367-5); ; Viking Penguin 1990 (0-241-12811-0);
Intl Pubs Mktg 1997 (0-7509-1562-5)

Holt, Tonie and Valmai  My Boy Jack? The Search for Kipling's Only Son  Leo Cooper 1998 (0 85052 407 5)

Taylor, I.  Victorian Sisters  Adler 1987 (0-917561-34-1)

Thirkell, A.  Three Houses  OUP 1931; Salem House 1987 (0-86072-103-5); Moyer Bell 1998 (1-55921-215-2)
 
 

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Literary Criticism

Bodelsen, C.A.  Aspects of Kipling's Art  Manchester UP 1964

Dobree, B.  Rudyard Kipling - Realist and Fabulist  OUP 1967

Green, R.L. (Ed.)  Kipling, The Critical Heritage  R.K.P. 1971; Barnes & Noble 1971 (0-389-04081-9)

Tomkins,J.M.S.  The Art of Rudyard Kipling  Gollancz 1959

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