Kipling’s Sussex.

HOPKINS, R. Thurston. [Rudyard Kipling].

$20.00

Item Number: 135205

London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd., 1921.

First edition of Thurston’s work on Kipling in Sussex. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. In good condition.

Rudyard Kipling resided in East Sussex, England from 1902 until his death in 1936 at Bateman's, a 17th century house located in Burwash. In 1900, Kipling was the most famous author in England, and was earning £5,000 per year; the cost of Bateman's, £9,300, was thus entirely affordable. Kipling wrote some of his finest works at the house including: "If—", "The Glory of the Garden", and Puck of Pook's Hill, named after the hill visible from the house. The house's setting and the wider local area features in many of his stories. Kipling's poem "The Land" is inspired by the Bateman's estate.