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Haunted by Africa

Posted by Dante on 2008-November-13 17:12:13 EST, Thursday
In reply to The extraordinary childhood of the girl who grew up with African animals posted by The Phantom on 2008-November-13 13:42:57 EST, Thursday
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Tippi's parents characterize her experience as pleasurable; perhaps the girl herself agrees...

One who did not was Alice Hastings Bradley. Her parents were Chicago socialites and African explorers. In 1921 young Alice was taken on a safari to the Congo immortalized in the book Alice in Jungleland; written by her mother Mary and illustrated by Alice.

But the human cruelty, death and suffering she encountered there combined with public denial of all of these continued to haunt her all her life.

See below for John Clute's review of the literary biography of Alice Sheldon née Bradley aka James Tiptree Jr.

Dante

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