Elspeth Huxley
Elspeth Huxley
Elspeth Joscelin Huxley CBE was an English writer, journalist, broadcaster, magistrate, environmentalist, farmer, and government adviser. 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 coffee farm in British Kenya. Her husband, Gervas Huxley, was a grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley and a cousin of Aldous Huxle
"Nothing happened — and thats the way to tell a true story from a made-up one. A made-up story always has a neat and tidy end. But true stories dont end, at least until their heroes and heroines die, and not then really because the things they did and didnt do, sometimes live on."
"How much does one imagine, how much observe? One can no more separate those functions than divide light from air, or wetness from water."
"I found it curiously exciting to hear an account of the Benin massacre of 1897 and its sequel from one who had taken part. It is a story that still has power to amaze and horrify, as well as to remind us that the British had motives for pushing into Africa other than the intention to exploit the natives and glorify themselves."
