KIPLING’S FORTUNE
RECORD FOR AN AUTHOR. ESTIMATED AT OVER £750,000. RECORD FOR AN AUTHOR, (United Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 9.50 a.m.) LONDON, January 20. The newspapers prophesy that Mi Rudyard Kipling’s estate will exceed £750,000 —a record for an author. Other literary fortunes have been:— Hall Caine ... £250,000 AV. S. Gilbert ... £lll,OOO Stanley Weyman ... £IOO,OOO Charles Dickens ... £93,000 Thomas Hardy ... £91,000 John Galsworthy ... £BB,OOO Mr Kipling’s wealth was attributed to the half-century’s steady sale of his works, none of which was published in a cheap edition.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 84, 21 January 1936, Page 8
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