{"id":674,"date":"2014-10-30T18:41:11","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T16:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/?p=674"},"modified":"2016-03-22T00:44:59","modified_gmt":"2016-03-21T22:44:59","slug":"674","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/?p=674","title":{"rendered":"Rudyard Kipling and his writing sanctuary"},"content":{"rendered":"

http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/My_Boy_Jack_(film)<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.nationaltrust.org.uk\/batemans\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Following on from yesterday’s post about where I write, I’m delighted to say I have persuaded some other writers to share their secrets too.<\/p>\n

Look out for the first guest blog next month.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, I’d like to share Rudyard Kipling’s study. I went to his house, Bateman’s, a few years ago. It’s now a National Trust property and they’ve preserved his writing room as it was when he used it. It was as if he’d just popped out. It’s a fascinating and cosy\u00a0family home. It was only when I watched the televised version of David Haig’s play, My Boy Jack, that I realized the house was home to tragedy too. You probably know that Kipling pulled strings to get his very short-sighted\u00a0son accepted by a regiment, only for him\u00a0to die during World War One at the Battle of Loos.<\/p>\n

Look out for news of my dual narrative novel, partly set in World War One, coming soon.<\/p>\n

Love,<\/p>\n

Georgia x<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/My_Boy_Jack_(film) http:\/\/www.nationaltrust.org.uk\/batemans\/ Following on from yesterday’s post about where I write, I’m delighted to say I have persuaded some other writers to share their secrets too. Look out for the first guest blog next month. In the meantime, I’d like to share Rudyard Kipling’s study. I went to his house, Bateman’s, a few years ago. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[243,247,246,245,244,31,242,28,240],"class_list":["post-674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-batemans","tag-battle-of-loos","tag-daniel-radcliffe","tag-david-haig","tag-my-boy-jack","tag-national-trust","tag-rudyard-kipling","tag-world-war-1","tag-writing-cave"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1645,"href":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions\/1645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}