A Different Kipling

When Rudyard Kipling was five, he and his sister Alice were sent back from India to be educated in England. Their aunt Louisa Baldwin wanted Alice as a companion to her son Stanley (yes, that Stanley Baldwin) but not the older Rudyard. To avoid having the children being split up, they were boarded out in what he would later describe as "The House of Desolation."

So which POD?

1 Both children stay with the Baldwins, resulting perhaps in lifelong rivalry between Rudyard and Stanley.

2. The children are split and Rudyard stays with his favourite aunt Georgia Burne-Jones, wife of the Pre-Raphaelite painter.
 
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