![]() During the 1885 Sudan campaign to relieve besieged General Charles Gordon in Khartoum, Dick and Torpenow defended themselves together during a battle when Dick received a blow to the head. *** Hero of THE LIGHT THAT FAILED is Dick Heldar, talented, rising but more than a little cynical London artist and onetime companion in Africa of famed war correspondent Gilbert Belling Torpenow. ![]() Florence became the model for aspiring painter Maisie in THE LIGHT THAT FAILED, as was also Kipling's beloved sister Trix, drawn on for Maisie when very young. It drew heavily on his first and just then ending romance with painter Florence Garrard which had begun when both were teenagers. Kipling dashed off that hugely autobiographical novel off within a three-month publisher's deadline. ![]() And fresh materials poured out, notably 1891's THE LIGHT THAT FAILED. Before he was 25, verses and stories originally published in India such as the short story "Baa Baa, Black Sheep" had been re-issued to acclaim in England and America. ![]() ![]() In 1889 the 23-year old Rudyard settled in London after seven intensely active years as a very young journalist in British India. ![]()
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