At sixteen, eccentric and literary, Kipling sailed to India to become a journalist. (1899) the myopic Beetle is a self-caricature, and the days at Westward Ho are recalled with mixed feelings. As late as 1935 Kipling still spoke bitterly of the “House of Desolation” at Southsea: “I should like to burn it down and plough the place with salt.”At twelve he entered a minor public school, the United Services College at Westward Ho, North Devon. His sense of desertion and despair were later expressed in his story “Baa Baa, Black Sheep” (1888), in his novel The Light that failed (1890), and his autobiography, Something of Myself (1937). Five years passed before he saw his parents again. In 1871, Rudyard and his sister, Trix, aged three, were left to be cared for by a couple in Southsea, England. Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay, India to British parents on December 30, 1865.
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