Trix
Title | Trix PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Hawthorns Publications Limited |
Pages | 390 |
Release | 2003-11 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781871044768 |
Trix
Title | Trix PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Fisher |
Publisher | Open Book Publishers |
Pages | 239 |
Release | 2024-09-04 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1805111558 |
This volume represents the first biography of Alice MacDonald Kipling Fleming (1868-1948), known as Trix. Rarely portrayed with sympathy or accuracy in biographies of her famous brother Rudyard, Trix was a talented writer and a memorable character in her own right whose fascinating life was unknown until now. In telling Trix’s story, Barbara Fisher rescues her from the misrepresentations, trivializations, and outright neglect of Rudyard’s many biographers. This book provides the first account of Trix’s life, beginning with the horrible childhood she shared with Rudyard as a Raj orphan in England. The biography follows adolescent Trix as she returned to India, where her brother encouraged her to write poems and stories, which were regularly mistaken for his. Her marriage to a stiff Scottish officer is chronicled from its hopeful beginnings through its childless, cheerless middle to its calm and compromised end. Trix’s bouts of mental illness are described in sympathetic detail. Turning her attention to Trix’s oeuvre Barbara Fisher locates and attributes all of her short fiction, poetry, and journalism, giving special attention to Trix’s two ambitious but flawed novels. She also puts into historical context Trix’s long and productive participation as a medium for the Society for Psychical Research. Most importantly, Trix: The Other Kipling gives a voice, a mind, and a heart to a misunderstood, misrepresented, but indomitable woman – an accomplishment which will be of great interest to readers interested in Victorian women authors, in the cultural interchanges between England and colonial India, in serious psychical research, in the early treatment of mental illness, and more generally, in the everyday life and struggles of intellectual women of the 19th and early 20th century.
The Works of Heinrich Heine
Title | The Works of Heinrich Heine PDF eBook |
Author | Heinrich Heine |
Publisher | |
Pages | 338 |
Release | 1904 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Appletons' Town and Country Library
Title | Appletons' Town and Country Library PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 1897 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Catalogue of the English Books, Fully Rev. and Completed Up to Date 1819-1915, Including All Previous Catalogues ... January 1915
Title | Catalogue of the English Books, Fully Rev. and Completed Up to Date 1819-1915, Including All Previous Catalogues ... January 1915 PDF eBook |
Author | Vieusseux's Newspapers Reading Room and Circulating library, Florence |
Publisher | |
Pages | 586 |
Release | 1915 |
Genre | English literature |
ISBN |
The World's Mercy
Title | The World's Mercy PDF eBook |
Author | Maxwell Gray |
Publisher | |
Pages | 318 |
Release | 1900 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Gospel Writ in Steel
Title | The Gospel Writ in Steel PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur Paterson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 1898 |
Genre | United States |
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