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Elspeth (Josceline Grant) Huxley | | Variant Name: |
Elspeth Huxley, Elspeth Josceline Grant Huxley | | Birth Date: |
July 23, 1907 | | Death Date: |
January 10, 1997 | | Nationality: |
British | | Ethnicity: |
English, Scottish | | Gender: |
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Biography of Elspeth (Josceline Grant) Huxley
11,511 words, approx. 38 pages
 From her youth in Kenya through her adult life in Wiltshire, Elspeth Josceline Huxley faithfully recorded some of the most significant developments in Africa during the twentieth century. Noted for her forthright statements, her...
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Biography of Elspeth (Josceline Grant) Huxley
3,253 words, approx. 11 pages
 Elspeth Huxley draws on her knowledge of Africa--the cultural, racial, and social milieus, the unique physical setting, the wildlife, and the tribal and political complexities--to weave Anglo-African detective stories. They are characterized by many of...


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Elspeth Huxley Information
442 words, approx. 2 pages
 Elspeth Joscelin Huxley (née Grant) (July 23, 1907 - January 10, 1997) was a polymath, writer, journalist, broadcaster, colonial officer, environmentalist and government advisor. She is best known for her lyrical books The Flame Trees of Thika (later...



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 The Independent - London
Obituary: Elspeth Huxley
01/13/1997: 1,423 words, approx. 5 pages Elspeth Huxley, the author and commentator on world affairs, was a witty, incisive and prolific writer whose oeuvre of 38 books, tapped out on two fingers on an ancient typewriter, covered events spanning the best part of this century. She was a meticulous...
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 New Criterion
A return to BEA.(Elspeth Huxley: A Biography)(Book Review)
10/01/2003: 2,292 words, approx. 8 pages C. S. Nicholls Elspeth Huxley: A Biography. St. Martin's Press, 528 pages, $35 Possibly because the men were all outdoors shooting animals and clearing land, the best-known chroniclers of the romantic, improbable lives led by white settlers in British East Africa have...


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