![]() Huxley refused, and the book was published by Chatto & Windus. The manuscript was sent first to the publisher Macmillan, but Harold Macmillan, then working for the family firm, agreed to publish it only with considerable cuts, including a graphic description of female circumcision. ![]() Huxley's 1939 book Red Strangers describes life among the Kikuyu of Kenya around the time of the arrival of the first European settlers. Huxley started writing soon after her marriage her first book, White Man's Country: Lord Delamere and the making of Kenya about the famous white settler, was published in 1935. ![]() She resigned her post in 1932 and travelled widely. Huxley was appointed Assistant Press Officer to the Empire Marketing Board in 1929. She left Africa in 1925, earning a degree in agriculture at Reading University in England and studying at Cornell University in upstate New York. Elspeth was educated at a whites-only school in Nairobi. It was adapted into a television miniseries in 1981. Huxley's 1959 book The Flame Trees of Thika explores how unprepared for rustic life the early British settlers really were. Her upbringing was unconventional she was "almost treated as a parcel, being passed from hand to hand". Elspeth, aged six, arrived in December 1913, complete with governess and maid. ![]() ![]() Nellie and Major Josceline Grant, Elspeth's parents, arrived in Thika in what was then British East Africa in 1912, to start a life as coffee farmers in colonial Kenya. ![]()
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