A photograph of Rudyard Kipling’s house in Lahore taken in the 1880s.
After it was decided that he did not have the academic ability to get a scholarship to go to Oxford University (his parents could not afford to pay for his education), Kipling was sent to Lahore in 1882 to become the assistant editor of a local newspaper called the Civil & Military Gazette.
It was in this house that that he completed and published Departmental Ditties, his first collection of poetry. He also published 39 stories in the Gazette between 1886 and 1887, many of which were included in Plain Tales from the Hills, his first prose collection published a year later.
After it was decided that he did not have the academic ability to get a scholarship to go to Oxford University (his parents could not afford to pay for his education), Kipling was sent to Lahore in 1882 to become the assistant editor of a local newspaper called the Civil & Military Gazette.
It was in this house that that he completed and published Departmental Ditties, his first collection of poetry. He also published 39 stories in the Gazette between 1886 and 1887, many of which were included in Plain Tales from the Hills, his first prose collection published a year later.