Alice Kipling same year. They had been so moved by the beauty of the Rudyard Lake area that when their first child was born they named him after it. Two of Alice's sisters married artists: Georgiana was married to the painter Edward Burne-Jones, and her sister Agnes to Edward Poynter. Kipling's most famous relative was his first cousin, Stanley Baldwin, who was Conservative Prime Minister three times in the 1920s and '30s. He was the son of Alice's sister Louisa and her husband Alfred Baldwin. Harry Ricketts in his biography of Rudyard Kipling wrote of Alice that she: "...was lively, witty and
Rudyard Kipling fleet to challenge the Royal Navy, publishing a series of articles in 1898 which were collected as "A Fleet in Being". On a visit to the United States in 1899, Kipling and Josephine developed pneumonia, from which she eventually died. In the wake of his daughter's death, Kipling concentrated on collecting material for what would become "Just So Stories for Little Children." That work was published in 1902, the year after "Kim" was first issued. The American literary scholar David Scott has argued that "Kim" disproves the claim made by Edward Said about Kipling as a promoter of Orientalism as