Trix: The Other Kipling

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dc.contributor.authorFisher, Barbara
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-07T04:45:57Z
dc.date.available2024-10-07T04:45:57Z
dc.date.issued2024-09-04
dc.date.updated2024-10-07T04:45:55Z
dc.descriptionPublication status: ACTIVE
dc.description.abstractThis 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.
dc.description.versionVoR
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0377
dc.identifier.isbn9781805111528
dc.identifier.isbn9781805111535
dc.identifier.isbn9781805111542
dc.identifier.isbn9781805111573
dc.identifier.isbn9781805111559
dc.identifier.other9c9db6fd-0ec8-4c27-805b-7e7810c10e97
dc.identifier.urihttps://thoth-arch.lib.cam.ac.uk/handle/1811/808
dc.languageENG
dc.publisherOpen Book Publishers
dc.rightsEmbargo: none
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectBGL
dc.subjectDSBH
dc.subjectVFV
dc.subjectBIO007000
dc.subjectBIO026000
dc.subjectLIT006000
dc.subjectDNC
dc.subjectDSA
dc.subjectDSG
dc.subjectBiography
dc.subjectEuropean Studies: English and Irish Studies
dc.subjectLiterature
dc.subjectAlice MacDonald Kipling Fleming
dc.subjectcolonial India
dc.subjectmental illness
dc.subjectRudyard Kipling
dc.subjectTrix
dc.subjectVictorian women authors
dc.titleTrix: The Other Kipling
dc.typehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2f33

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