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Article: A return to BEA.(Elspeth Huxley: A Biography)(Book Review)
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- October 1, 2003
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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 been women: Isak Dinesen, Beryl Markham, and Elspeth Huxley. Dinesen's Out of Africa is, considered in purely literary terms, the best book on the subject, but she was a self-mythologizer and, according to those who knew her and her world, essentially dishonest. Beryl Markham's autobiographical West With the Night has achieved a popularity out of all proportion to its merit: while Markham's life was ...
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Article: LAURA HUXLEY
The Independent - London;
December 17, 2007 ;
700+ words
...Widow of Aldous Huxley Laura Huxley, widow of the writer Aldous Huxley, was a frail, small-boned woman: her husband, with his lanky, elastic frame, seemed twice her height. Aldous married Laura in 1956 for, he said, her fragile beauty ...
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