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Agnes Newton Keith (born Agnes Jones Goodwillie Newton; July 4, 1901 – March 30, 1982) was an American writer best known for her three autobiographical accounts of life in North Borneo (now Sabah) before, during, and after World War II.
Agnes Keith. Agnes Keith (Castello di Dunnottar, 1540 circa – Edimburgo, 16 luglio 1588) in prime nozze sposò James Stewart Reggente di Scozia e fratellastro, illegittimo, di Maria Stuarda, quale moglie del reggente Agnes divenne non solo la cognata della regina, ma anche una delle donne più potenti del paese dal 1567, anno in ...
Owner. Sabah Museum. Agnes Keith House (formerly known as the Newlands) ( Malay: Rumah Agnes Keith) is a historic house museum in Sandakan, Sabah, Malaysia. The museum is named after Agnes Newton Keith, an American author known for her three autobiographical accounts of life in British North Borneo .
Agnes Newton Keith. Agnes Keith was born in 1901 in Illinois but grew up in Hollywood long before "Tinsel Town" became what it is today. In 1934 she married Henry ("Harry") George Keith, an Englishman whom she had first met as a childhood friend of her brother. Harry was on leave from Sandakan where he had lived since 1925 and where he served ...
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4.16. 897 ratings114 reviews. When the Japanese take Borneo in 1942, Agnes Keith is captured and imprisoned with her two-year-old son. Fed on minimal rations, forced to work through recurrent bouts of malaria and fighting with rats for scraps of food, Agnes Keith's spirit never completely dies.
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Now restored to health, the Keiths are working for the reconstruction of North Borneo. This new and difficult phase she tells of in White Man Returns, an Atlantic-Little, Brown book to be ...
Agnes Newton Keith was born on 6 July 1901 in Oak Park, Illinois, USA. She was an actress and writer, known for Three Came Home (1950). She was married to Henry G. Keith. She died on 30 March 1982 in Oak Bay, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
