UID:
almahu_9949891151402882
Format:
1 online resource (x, 250 pages) :
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29 illustrations.
ISBN:
9781805111542
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9781805111559
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9781805111573
Content:
"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."--Publisher's website.
Note:
Available through Open Book Publishers.
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Introduction / Barbara Fisher -- 1. The House of Desolation / Barbara Fisher -- 2. MacDonalds and Kiplings / Barbara Fisher -- 3. Rescue / Barbara Fisher -- 4. The Family Square / Barbara Fisher -- 5. The Heart of a Maid / Barbara Fisher -- 6. Wife of Jack / Barbara Fisher -- 7. A Pinchbeck Goddess / Barbara Fisher -- 8. Breakdown / Barbara Fisher -- 9. Psychic Research / Barbara Fisher -- 10. Relapse and Exile / Barbara Fisher -- 11. Recovery and Return / Barbara Fisher.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Language:
English
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