Elspeth huxley parents magazine

  • Early life and education.
  • Elspeth Josceline Huxley was born in July 1907, the only child of Maj. Josceline Grant, a Scot, and his formidable wife, the former Nellie.
  • Elspeth Josceline Huxley (née Grant), author and journalist, was born 23 July 1907 in London, the only child of Major Josceline Charles Henry (Jos) Grant (1873.

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    Elspeth Huxley

    English writer, journalist, magistrate, environmentalist and adviser

    Elspeth Huxley


    CBE

    BornElspeth Grant
    (1907-07-23)23 July 1907
    London[1]
    Died10 January 1997(1997-01-10) (aged 89)
    Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England
    OccupationAuthor, reporter, broadcaster, magistrate, environmentalist, farmer, and government adviser
    NationalityBritish
    Alma materReading University, Cornell University
    SubjectSettler life in British Kenya
    Notable worksThe Flame Trees of Thika, The Mottled Lizard
    SpouseGervas Huxley
    RelativesHuxley family

    Elspeth Joscelin HuxleyCBE (née Grant; 23 July 1907 – 10 January 1997)[1] was an English writer, journalist, broadcaster, magistrate, environmentalist, farmer, and government adviser.[2] She wrote over 40 books, including her best-known lyrical books, The Flame Trees of Thika and The Mottled Lizard, based on her youth in a kaffe farm in

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    MSS. Afr. s. 2154 boxes 1 to 6 contain letters written to Elspeth Huxley by Nellie Grant from 1933 until Nellie's death in 1977. These give a weekly account of Nellie's life, and especially of her numerous schemes for making a living from her farm.

    MSS. Afr. s. 2154 boxes 8 and 9 contain letters written by Elspeth Huxley to her husband, Gervas Huxley, when one or the other was travelling. The bulk of these letters were written by Elspeth Huxley when in Africa, collecting material - especially in

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    NameElspeth Joscelin GRANT, 7242

    Birth1907

    Death1997

    Notes for Elspeth Joscelin GRANT

    Elspeth Joscelin Huxley CBE (née Grant; 23 July 1907 – 10 January 1997) was a polymath, writer, journalist, broadcaster, magistrate, environmentalist, farmer, and government advisor.[1] She wrote 30 books; but she is best known for her lyrical books The Flame Trees of Thika and The Mottled Lizard which were based on her experiences growing up in a coffee farm in Colonial Kenya. Her husband, Gervas Huxley, was a grandson of Thomas Huxley and a cousin of Aldous Huxley.

    Life and work

    See also: Huxley family
    Nellie and Major Josceline Grant, Elspeth Grant's parents, arrived in Thika in what was then British East Africa in 1912, when she was 5 years old, to start a life as coffee farmers and colonial settlers. Flame Trees... explores how unprepared for rustic life the early British settlers really were. Elspeth was educated at a whites only school in Nairobi.
    She left Africa in 1925, earning a d

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