"rise above Paul's affairs", but to stay married to him and pursue her own career. In the late 1920s, Eslanda wrote her first book, a first biography of her husband: Paul Robeson, Negro. It was published by Harper in 1930. Robeson, who had provided no direct input, was "deeply angered" by it. He resented that she put words into his mouth and depicted him as lazy, immature, and needy of her guidance. In the book, Robeson complains, "she treats me just as a ... small child", to which she replies "perhaps when you grow up I'll treat you as a man." She also addresses the issue of his infidelity, which he neither confirms or denies; she assures him that she feels that they have such a deep level of love, that past events could not affect it, "No matter what other women have done to you, or you to them, they have in no way walked in my garden." Harry Hanson, a New York critic, gave the book a positive review and called it inspiring, and that it was written with "rich understanding" and "deep pride". He recommended that the book should be read by white America. W.E.B. Du Bois placed it in the 'must read' category in The Crisis, the NAACP magazine. Other views, however, were negative. Stark Young in the New Republic called it "biographical rubbish". Eslanda played Adah in Borderline, an avant-garde classic silent film directed in 1930 by Kenneth MacPherson. Eslanda wrote in her diary of the experience, "Kenneth and H.D. used to make us so shriek with laughter with their naïve ideas of Negroes that Paul and I often completely ruined our makeup with tears of laughter, had to make up all over again." Anthropologist In 1931, the couple were living in London and became more estranged. Eslanda resumed her own career, taking acting parts in three movies over the next couple of years. She enrolled at the London School of Economics for anthropology and graduated in 1937. In England, she learned more about Africa. She made the first of three journeys to the continent, touring South and East Africa with her son in 1936. With the signs of war imminent in Europe, the Robesons moved back to Harlem in 1938. Three years later, they moved to Enfield, Connecticut to their estate "The Beeches". Eslanda earned her Ph.D. in anthropology at the Hartford Seminary in