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A return to BEA.(Elspeth Huxley: A Biography)(Book Review)
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 ...
- Elspeth Huxley: A Biography. (Reviews).(Book Review)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Contemporary Review September 1, 2002 700+ words
Elspeth Huxley: A Biography. C. S. Nicholls. HarperCollins. [pounds sterling]20.00. 482 pages. ISBN 0-00-257165-X. Elspeth Huxley was famous to generations of Britons as a writer and broadcaster whose...
- Huxley: From Devil's Disciple to Evolution's High Priest.
- Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History Lightman, Bernard April 1, 1998 700+ words
Huxley: From Devil's Disciple to Evolution...Desmond's smashing biography of T.H. Huxley should appeal to a number of different audiences...developed contextualist interpretation of Huxley's evolution from social underdog to Darwin...
- Huxley, Thomas Henry
- Dictionary definition from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography January 1, 2008 700+ words
Huxley, Thomas Henry ( b . Earling, Middlesex, England...evolution, paleontology, ethnology. Thomas Henry Huxley was the seventh and youngest surviving child of George and Rachel Huxley. His father taught mathematics and was assistant...
- Thomas Henry Huxley: the evolution of a scientist.(Review)
- Magazine article from: Ecology POWELL, ROBERT July 1, 2000 700+ words
...Lyons, Sherrie L. 1999. Thomas Henry Huxley: the evolution of a scientist. Prometheus...be interested in a biography of T. H. Huxley? Surely the ideas expressed so eloquently...and philosophers of sciences. In fact, Huxley's popular legacy may well have overshadowed...
- Works of Aldous Huxley: Bibliography
- Reference information from: Monarch Notes Huxley, Aldous January 1, 1963 700+ words
Huxley, Aldous Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Bibliography...General Background And Criticism "Aldous Huxley," in Writers at Work; The Paris Review...cuff remarks.) Atkins, John. Aldous Huxley: A Literary Study. London, 1956. (One...
- Aldous Huxley Recollected: An Oral History.
- Magazine article from: Utopian Studies Lewis, Arthur O. January 1, 1997 700+ words
...Dunaway discovered that the American part of Huxley's life had been much neglected, his...ignored. Dunaway sees things differently: Huxley's American years were, in fact, years...half-life" (xvii) and published Huxley in Hollywood (1989). In writing it...
- Aldous Huxley.
- Magazine article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction Izzo, David Garrett September 22, 2005 700+ words
...universe in all its horror. --Aldous Huxley, "Farcical History of Richard Greenow...the wicked punished and reformed. --Huxley, Vulgarity in Literature (21) Many people know the name Aldous Huxley in connection with his landmark 1932...
- Aldous Huxley and the Mysticism of Science.
- Magazine article from: Utopian Studies Wagar, W. Warren March 22, 1997 700+ words
...relatively rare breed. June Deery's Aldous Huxley and the Mysticism of Science takes us...the great Victorian biologist T.H. Huxley and the brother of the evolutionist and scientific humanist Sir Julian Huxley. Utopian scholars presumably know all...