Nellie’s Story: With A Memoir By Her Daughter Elspeth Huxley.
198195377New York: William Morrow and Company Inc 1981. First American edition of Nellie Grant's autobiography with a memoir by her daughter Elspeth Huxley. Octavo original half cloth. Presentation copy inscribed by Elspeth Huxley on he half-title page "For Joe Ferrier - The favourite of my books because most of it was written by someone else me mother the greatest character I have known - Elspeth Huxley May 1983." The recipient Joe Ferrier was a fan and pen pal of Huxley's. They often exchanged letters books and article clippings between England and the United States. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Judith Kazdyn Leeds. Nellie and Major Josceline Grant arrived in Thika in what was then British East Africa in 1912 where they became colonial settlers and established a coffee plantation. Their daughter Elspeth had quite an unconventional childhood which she later wrote about in her best known work The Flame Trees of Thika 1959 which examined how unprepared for rustic life the early British settlers really were. Nellie's Story is a further examination of the family's life including her witnessing of the Mau Mau revolt in the 1950s and the emergence of of a new Africa in the 1960s. William Morrow and Company, Inc hardcover books
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