Booklist – Contemporary Memoirs – The Kipling Society

Author	Title	Publisher	Location	Year	Notes
Anon.	The Whispering Gallery	John Lane, Bodley Head	London	1926	'Leaves from a Diplomat's Diary' with mixed memories of Kipling.
Beerbohm, Max	See biography by David Cecil & Dixon Scott, Men of Letters.
Bennett, Arnold	Books and Persons	Chatto & Windus	London	1917
Beerbohm, Max	See also (SS44) Le Gallienne for Max's notorious "improvement" to RK's portrait.
Benson, A.C.	The Upton Letters	John Murray	London	1926	Few mentions of Kipling. Author was a friend of Crofts.
Bok, Edward W.	The Americanisation of Edward Bok	Charles Scribner & Sons	New York City	1923	Memoirs of the Dutchman who was editor of The Ladies' Home Journal for thirty years and in that capacity published a number of Kipling stories, not always with the approval of his readers.
Bok, Edward W.	Twice Thirty	Charles Scribner & Sons	New York City	1925
Brown, W. Sorley	The Life and Genius of T.W.H.Crosland	Cecil Palmer	London	1928	Biography of journalist who published parodies called 'The Five Notions'. See Ricketts p.283.
Buchan, John	See biography by Andrew Lownie.
Buchanan, Robert	See biography by Henry Murray.
Buckley, Jerome Hamilton	William Ernest Henley	Princeton University Press		1945	Henley, poet, critic and editor was publishing Kipling's verse in early 1890 in the 'National Observer'.
Cecil, David	Max - A Biography	Constable	London	1964	Life of Max Beerbohm.
Charteris, Hon. Evan	The Life and Letters of Sir Edmond Gosse	Heinemann	London	1931
Connell,John	W.E.Henley	Constable	London	1949	Biography.
Crosland, T.W.H.	See biography by W. Sorley Brown.
Dufferin and Ava, Lady	Our Viceregal Life in India (Vol. 2 only)	John Murray	London	1889	Covers 1886-88.
Frank, Katherine	A Voyager Out: The Life of Mary Kingsley	Hamish Hamilton	London	1987	A few mentions of Kipling.
Gardiner, A.G.	Prophets, Priests and Kings	Alston Rivers Ltd.	London	1908	Character studies of Edwardian figures. 7pp. on Kipling.
Gosse, Edmund	See biography by Evan Charteris and R.J Lister.
Green, Roger Lancelyn	Andrew Lang: A Critical Biography	Edmund Ward	Leicester	1946	Life of friend of Kipling.
Haggard, H.Rider	Diaries of Sir H. Rider Haggard (1914-25)	Cassell & Co.	London	1980	Edited by D.S.Higgins.
Haggard, Lilias Rider	The Cloak That I Left	Hodder & Stoughton	London	1951	Life of Rider Haggard by his daughter.
Hamilton, Gen. Sir Ian	Listening for the Drums	Faber & Faber	London		Memoirs of a Kipling contemporary.
Hammerton, J.A.	Other Things than War	McDonald & Co.	London	1943	Memoirs of a Kipling contemporary.
Henley, William Ernest	See biographies by J.H. Buckley & John Connell.
Hennessy, Joseph	See Alexander Wolcott, Letters.
Hind, C. Lewis	Naphtali	John Lane, Bodley Head	London	1926	Memoirs of Kipling contemporary.
Jones, Doris Arthur	The Life and letters of Henry Arthur Jones	Gollancz	London	1930	Daughter's life of playwright includes three Kipling letters.
Kaufman, Beatrice	See Alexander Wolcott, Letters.
Lane, Margaret	Edgar Wallace	The Book Club	London	1938	Biography of Kipling contemporary.
Lang, Andrew	See biography by Roger Lancelyn Green.
Leslie, Shane	Mark Sykes - His Life and Letters	Cassell & Co.	London	1923	With portrait and thirty cartoons by Sykes himself.
Lownie, Andrew	John Buchan	Constable	London	1988	Biography of Kipling contemporary.
Martineau, G.D.	Controller of Devils - A life of J. P.Warberton	Published by author	Lyme Regis	1966	Warburton has been seen as the original of Strickland.
Murray, Henry	Robert Buchannan - A Critical Review & Other Essays	Philip Wellby	London	1901	Buchanan wrote 'The Voice of the Hooligan'. Book also includes essay on Kipling.
Neill, Roger	Robert Louis Stevenson and Count Nesli in Samoa	Red Lion Press	Oxfordshire	1997
Powell, Violet	Flora Annie Steel - Novelist of India	Heinemann	London	1981	Steele was not only a very successful writer but Inspector of Schools for the Punjab.
Ralph, Julian	War's Brighter Side	C. Arthur Pearson	London	1901	Story of 'The Friend' newspaper edited by Kipling and others in the Boer War. Illustrated
Raymond, E.T.	All and Sundry	T. Fisher Unwin Ltd.	London	1919	Some thirty-five character sketches of contemporary figures. Kipling on pp.177-185.
Rivett-Carnac, J.H.	Many Memories of Life in India, at Home and Abroad	Blackwood & Sons	Edinburgh	1910	Memoirs of ICS patron of Lockwood Kipling.
Wallace, Edgar	See biography by Margaret Lane.
Younghusband, Maj.-Gen. Sir George	A Soldier's Memories in Peace and War	Herbert Jenkins	London	1917	Includes story of Trix at Simla dance.