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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.

Book details

Book category Books in German Belletristik Zweisprachige Ausgaben

• Full title: Trix
• Author: Barbara Fisher
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 262
• EAN: 9781805111535
• ISBN: 1805111531
• ID: 46482341
• Publisher: Open Book Publishers
• Weight: 754 g
• Dimensions: 240 × 161 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 04. September 2024

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