Editing Rudyard Kipling (section)

===London===
In London, Kipling had several stories accepted by magazines. He found a place to live for the next two years at [[Villiers Street]], near Charing Cross (in a building subsequently named Kipling House):

<blockquote>Meantime, I had found me quarters in [[Villiers Street]], [[Strand, London|Strand]], which forty-six years ago was primitive and passionate in its habits and population. My rooms were small, not over-clean or well-kept, but from my desk I could look out of my window through the [[fanlight]] of [[Charing Cross Music Hall|Gatti's Music-Hall]] entrance, across the street, almost on to its stage. The [[Charing Cross]] trains rumbled through my dreams on one side, the boom of the Strand on the other, while, before my windows, [[River Thames|Father Thames]] under the [[Shot tower]] walked up and down with his traffic.<ref>Kipling, Rudyard (1956). ''Kipling: A Selection of His Stories and Poems, Volume 2''. Doubleday. p. 349.</ref></blockquote>

In the next two years, he published a novel, ''[[The Light That Failed]]'', had a [[nervous breakdown]], and met an American writer and publishing agent, [[Wolcott Balestier]], with whom he collaborated on a novel, ''[[The Naulahka: A Story of West and East|The Naulahka]]'' (a title which he uncharacteristically misspelt; see below).<ref name="gilmour" /> In 1891, as advised by his doctors, Kipling took another sea voyage, to South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and once again India.<ref name="gilmour" /> He cut short his plans to spend Christmas with his family in India when he heard of Balestier's sudden death from [[typhoid fever]] and decided to return to London immediately. Before his return, he had used the [[Telegraphy#Telegram services|telegram]] to propose to, and be accepted by, Wolcott's sister, [[Caroline Starr Balestier Kipling|Caroline Starr Balestier]] (1862–1939), called "Carrie", whom he had met a year earlier, and with whom he had apparently been having an intermittent romance.<ref name="gilmour" /> Meanwhile, late in 1891, a collection of his short stories on the British in India, ''Life's Handicap'', was published in London.<ref>Coates, John D. (1997). ''The Day's Work: Kipling and the Idea of Sacrifice''. Fairleigh University Press, p. 130. {{ISBN|083863754X}}.</ref>

On 18 January 1892, Carrie Balestier (aged 29) and Rudyard Kipling (aged 26) married in London, in the "thick of an influenza epidemic, when the undertakers had run out of black horses and the dead had to be content with brown ones."<ref name="autobio" /> The wedding was held at [[All Souls Church, Langham Place|All Souls Church]] in [[Langham Place, London|Langham Place]], central London. [[Henry James]] gave away the bride.<ref>{{cite news |title=A sensitive bounder |url=https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/a-sensitive-bounder/ |access-date=21 July 2023 |work=Spectator |archive-date=21 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230721140630/https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/a-sensitive-bounder/ |url-status=live }}</ref>