Background
Huxley was born July 23, 1907, in London, England, but grew up in Kenya. She was the daughter of Nellie and Major Josceline Grant.
(A portrait of the romance and realities of colonial life ...)
A portrait of the romance and realities of colonial life in Kenya, this memoir offers an insider's perspective on colonial and modern Africa.
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1988
("I didn't choose Oaksey, it chose me" say Elspeth Huxley ...)
"I didn't choose Oaksey, it chose me" say Elspeth Huxley in the preface to her evocative diary of life in a small Wiltshire village. She had lived there for thirty-five years, taking part in village affairs and events, and during one year; April 1974 to March 1975, kept a diary of village life. Despite the way in which old ways and skills were disappearing, Elspeth Huxley captures the essential role of village life in English society.
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1988
(Investigating mysterious incidents in an East African far...)
Investigating mysterious incidents in an East African farming community, Vachell uncovers the death by poisoning of a German farmer suspected of Nazi sympathies and the burned body of an Englishman.
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1989
(In an open cart Elspeth Huxley set off with her parents t...)
In an open cart Elspeth Huxley set off with her parents to travel to Thika in Kenya. As pioneering settlers, they built a house of grass, ate off a damask cloth spread over packing cases, and discovered—the hard way—the world of the African. With an extraordinary gift for detail and a keen sense of humor, Huxley recalls her childhood on the small farm at a time when Europeans waged their fortunes on a land that was as harsh as it was beautiful. For a young girl, it was a time of adventure and freedom, and Huxley paints an unforgettable portrait of growing up among the Masai and Kikuyu people, discovering both the beauty and the terrors of the jungle, and enduring the rugged realities of the pioneer life.
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2000
(Growing up in Kenya in the early twentieth century, the b...)
Growing up in Kenya in the early twentieth century, the brothers Matu and Muthegi are raised according to customs that, they are told, have existed since the beginning of the world. But when the 'red' strangers come, sunburned Europeans who seek to colonize their homeland, the lives of the two Kikuyu tribesmen begin to change in dramatic new ways. Soon, their people are overwhelmed by unknown diseases that traditional magic seems powerless to control. And as the strangers move across the land, the tribe rapidly finds itself forced to obey foreign laws that seem at best bizarre, and that at worst entirely contradict the Kikuyu's own ancient ways, rituals and beliefs.
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2006
(In this sequel to The Flame of Thika, Elspeth Huxley take...)
In this sequel to The Flame of Thika, Elspeth Huxley takes up her story after the family returns to Kenya after the First World War. Her family and friends, their home and their travels, the glorious wildlife and scenery, described in rich and loving detail, all spring to life in this enchanting book.
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2011
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Huxley was born July 23, 1907, in London, England, but grew up in Kenya. She was the daughter of Nellie and Major Josceline Grant.
Elspeth was educated at a whites-only school in Nairobi. She also attended Reading University, receiving a degree in agriculture, and studied at Cornell University in upstate New York.
Huxley started her career joining the staff of Empire Marketing Board as a press officer in 1929. In 1932, she resigned her post to accompany her husband on travels in conjunction with his job for the Ceylon Tea Propaganda Board. During this time she wrote her first book White Man's Country: Lord Delamere and the making of Kenya.
During the Second World War, Huxley was a broadcaster for the BBC, and in 1960, she became an independent member of the Advisory Commission for the Review of the Constitution of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. Few years later she started working as a correspondent for the National Review magazine. After 1960s, Huxley worked primaly as a freelance writer.
(Investigating mysterious incidents in an East African far...)
1989(Growing up in Kenya in the early twentieth century, the b...)
2006(A portrait of the romance and realities of colonial life ...)
1988(In this sequel to The Flame of Thika, Elspeth Huxley take...)
2011("I didn't choose Oaksey, it chose me" say Elspeth Huxley ...)
1988(In an open cart Elspeth Huxley set off with her parents t...)
2000Huxley was a supporter of the African nationalist movement.
Huxley married Gervas Huxley in 1931. They had one son, Charles, who was born in February 1944.