The best-known of these include Isak Dinesen (the pen name of Karen Blixen), whose Out of Africa was the basis for the popular film starring Meryl Streep; Elspeth Huxley, author of The Flame Trees of Thika; Margorie Oludhe Macgoye, whose Coming to Birth won the Sinclair Prize; and Beryl Markham, author of West with the Night.
Eleanor Lilian Grosvenor (1885–1977), married Major Josceline Grant; mother of Elspeth Huxley
Aldous Huxley | Julian Huxley | Thomas Henry Huxley | Huxley | Laura Huxley | Paul Huxley | Elspeth Huxley | Elspeth Henderson | Huxley College of the Environment | Elspeth Howe, Baroness Howe of Idlicote | Elspeth Campbell | (Thomas Henry) Huxley | Robb Huxley | Rick Huxley | Julian Huxley | Island (Huxley novel) | Huxley College | Elspeth Hanson | Elspeth Barker | Elspeth Ballantyne | Craig Huxley | Andrew D. Huxley |
In 1981 she portrayed the young Elspeth Huxley in the television adaptation of the latter's autobiographical book The Flame Trees of Thika.