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Name: 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: Female

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Biography of Elspeth (Josceline Grant) Huxley
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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
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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 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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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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