• Elspeth Joscelin Huxley CBE (née Grant; 23 July 1907 – 10 January 1997) was an English writer, journalist, broadcaster, magistrate, environmentalist,...
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  • work are the subject of a 2002 biography. As an author, Elspeth Huxley was well up to Huxley standards, and one of the few wives who was better-known...
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  • musician Elspeth Howe (1932–2022), English public servant Elspeth Huxley (1907–1997), Kenyan writer Elspeth Kennedy (1921–2006), English scholar Elspeth March...
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  • adapted by John Hawkesworth from the 1959 book of the same title by Elspeth Huxley, and is set in and around the town of Thika in Kenya's Central Province...
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  • author, son of Leonard Sir Andrew Huxley (1917–2012), British physiologist and biophysicist, son of Leonard Elspeth Huxley (1907–1997), British writer, granddaughter-in-law...
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  • Red Strangers is a 1939 novel by Elspeth Huxley. The story is an account of the arrival of European settlers to colonial Kenya told through the eyes of...
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  • Wells novel The History of Mr Polly. In 1981 she portrayed the young Elspeth Huxley in the television adaptation of the latter's autobiographical book The...
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    include The Sorcerer's Apprentice: A Journey Through Africa (1948) by Elspeth Huxley, and the travel book Sorcerer's Apprentice (1998) by Tahir Shah. Karl...
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  • comedy show It's That Man Again I Don't Mind If I Do, 1950 book by Elspeth Huxley Don't Mind If I Do (Culture Club album), 1999 Don't Mind If I Do, a...
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    Flame Trees of Thika (Memories of an African Childhood) is a book by Elspeth Huxley, later adapted for television by Euston Films for Thames Television...
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    report of Sidney Hockey, a British Council Library consultant In 1948, Elspeth Huxley who was an author, journalist, broadcaster, environmentalist and government...
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    United Kingdom had permanently abandoned the gold standard. The writer Elspeth Huxley worked on her biography of Lord Delamere while crossing the Atlantic...
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  • the scene of the massacre, finding headless bodies of the victims. Elspeth Huxley spent some time researching in Benin in 1954, and wrote: " ... to hear...
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  • fever, by H.L. Tredree The Mottled Lizard, a 1962 memoir of Kenya by Elspeth Huxley Wolfenstein: The Old Blood, referenced by Wesley (Agent One) near the...
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    course-mates included the anthropologists Audrey Richards, Lucy Mair, and Elspeth Huxley. Another of his fellow LSE students was Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark...
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    western Indian Ocean", The Geographical Journal, 145 (1), foreword by Elspeth Huxley: 130, Bibcode:1979GeogJ.145..130K, doi:10.2307/633106, JSTOR 633106...
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    Dawkins has also written forewords to books, including: Red Strangers by Elspeth Huxley, republished by Penguin Books, 1999. The Meme Machine by Susan Blackmore...
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  • Plants(1991), Anthony Huxley (Author), Sir David Attenborough (Foreword) Peter Scott: Painter and Naturalist(1994), Elspeth Huxley(Author), Sir David Attenborough...
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  • (4.9 km2) wheat crop that eventually failed. He was quoted by author Elspeth Huxley as commenting drily, 'I started to grow wheat in East Africa to prove...
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  • Sir Alexander Cadogan, Isaac Deutscher, Lord Gladwyn, Lord Hankey, Elspeth Huxley, T.E. Lawrence, Sir Harry Luke, Ali A. Mazrui, Sir Lewis Namier, Lionel...
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    knowledge of penguin embryology, nor to scientific knowledge as a whole. Elspeth Huxley concludes that the eggs generated "negative information". The Worst...
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  • actor Kulvinder Ghir, comedian Tania Harcourt-Cooze, model and actress Elspeth Huxley, author, journalist, broadcaster Viram Jasani, musician Michael Kuhn...
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    of the Sands portrays the threatening nature of the German Empire. Elspeth Huxley's novel Red Strangers shows the effects on local culture of colonial...
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    creation of Risley Residential College include Margaret Bourke-White', Elspeth Huxley, Barbara McClintock, Helen Reichert, and Janet Reno. Notable residents...
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    in the UK television mini-series The Flame Trees of Thika, based on Elspeth Huxley's memoir of her childhood in East Africa. The series was well received...
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  • Harcourt-Cooze– model (emigrated to UK) Aidan Hartley – news correspondent Elspeth Huxley – polymath, writer, journalist, broadcaster, magistrate, environmentalist...
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    reputation, up to and beyond World War II. Reginald Pound (1966) and Elspeth Huxley (1977), who each had access to original material including Scott's sledging...
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    of Africa was the basis for the popular film starring Meryl Streep; Elspeth Huxley, author of The Flame Trees of Thika; Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye, whose...
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    Visions of Africa: The Fiction of Chinua Achebe, Margaret Laurence, Elspeth Huxley, and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Kenya Literature Bureau, 1978 African Orature...
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    committed to elevating humanity and upholding the dignity of women".: 52  Elspeth Huxley, British writer who met Aminu in the early 1950s, in her 1954 book "Four...
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