Elspeth Joscelin Huxley CBE (née Grant; 23 July 1907 – 10 January 1997) was an English writer, journalist, broadcaster, magistrate, environmentalist,... 11 KB (1,101 words) - 02:23, 7 April 2024 |
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... 28 KB (3,502 words) - 05:29, 27 February 2024 |
musician Elspeth Howe (1932–2022), English public servant Elspeth Huxley (1907–1997), Kenyan writer Elspeth Kennedy (1921–2006), English scholar Elspeth March... 4 KB (494 words) - 03:21, 26 April 2024 |
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... 6 KB (660 words) - 23:58, 5 February 2024 |
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... 2 KB (239 words) - 19:34, 18 July 2022 |
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... 3 KB (285 words) - 19:29, 19 January 2024 |
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... 7 KB (300 words) - 07:19, 5 May 2024 |
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... 1 KB (229 words) - 08:25, 17 October 2021 |
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... 13 KB (1,557 words) - 13:52, 24 March 2024 |
United Kingdom had permanently abandoned the gold standard. The writer Elspeth Huxley worked on her biography of Lord Delamere while crossing the Atlantic... 8 KB (769 words) - 00:04, 6 February 2024 |
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... 34 KB (4,348 words) - 08:39, 10 May 2024 |
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... 13 KB (1,426 words) - 21:28, 3 December 2023 |
western Indian Ocean", The Geographical Journal, 145 (1), foreword by Elspeth Huxley: 130, Bibcode:1979GeogJ.145..130K, doi:10.2307/633106, JSTOR 633106... 21 KB (2,228 words) - 21:04, 15 April 2024 |
Plants(1991), Anthony Huxley (Author), Sir David Attenborough (Foreword) Peter Scott: Painter and Naturalist(1994), Elspeth Huxley(Author), Sir David Attenborough... 112 KB (2,904 words) - 13:54, 10 May 2024 |
(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... 23 KB (2,778 words) - 16:21, 30 October 2023 |
Sir Alexander Cadogan, Isaac Deutscher, Lord Gladwyn, Lord Hankey, Elspeth Huxley, T.E. Lawrence, Sir Harry Luke, Ali A. Mazrui, Sir Lewis Namier, Lionel... 9 KB (920 words) - 14:53, 14 March 2024 |
actor Kulvinder Ghir, comedian Tania Harcourt-Cooze, model and actress Elspeth Huxley, author, journalist, broadcaster Viram Jasani, musician Michael Kuhn... 5 KB (543 words) - 23:14, 28 February 2023 |
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... 23 KB (2,517 words) - 20:32, 26 April 2024 |
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... 40 KB (3,457 words) - 11:48, 10 May 2024 |
Harcourt-Cooze– model (emigrated to UK) Aidan Hartley – news correspondent Elspeth Huxley – polymath, writer, journalist, broadcaster, magistrate, environmentalist... 6 KB (526 words) - 20:43, 1 May 2022 |
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... 5 KB (520 words) - 15:13, 4 May 2024 |
Visions of Africa: The Fiction of Chinua Achebe, Margaret Laurence, Elspeth Huxley, and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Kenya Literature Bureau, 1978 African Orature... 19 KB (1,776 words) - 04:34, 21 April 2024 |