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Aldous Huxley
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Standard Name: Huxley, Aldous
In addition to Brave New World, 1932, one of the most famous dystopian novels of the twentieth century, AH
penned more than forty other novels, often satirical, frequently mystical, that confront the dogmas, idiosyncrasies, and ideals of contemporary humankind. He also published poetry. Fascinated by science as well as mysticism, he used essays to explore the dimensions of the human psyche. He has been called often wrong, always fascinating, when right, dead right, almost in spite of himself.
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Dora Carrington | Here, Morrell
and another guest, writer Aldous Huxley
(who were both friends of and loyal to Carrington's admirer Mark Gertler
), confronted Carrington about her reluctance to give up her virginity. She described the episode... |
Cultural formation | Sybille Bedford | Around 1964, soon after suffering the deaths of Aldous Huxley
and of another close friend, SB
accepted the suggestion of Rosamond Lehmann
and visited a medium, who purported to deliver her a message from Huxley. Hastings, Selina. Rosamond Lehmann. Chatto and Windus, 2002. 367 |
death | Mary Augusta Ward | It was said that at her death a copy of Limbo, the first publication of her nephew Aldous Huxley
, was found at her bedside. Its opening story incorporates a hostile and no doubt... |
Education | Pamela Hansford Johnson | She said her only Higher Education was the one in English literature provided by Aldous Huxley
's anthology Texts and Pretexts, 1933. While she believed that a degree course in literature would have been... |
Education | Philip Larkin | For ten years from 1930, as both a primary and a secondary-school student, PL
attended King Henry VIII School
in Coventry (now an independent school for both sexes, but founded in the sixteenth century as... |
Education | Barbara Pym | At school Barbara chaired the Literary Society, published short stories in the school's magazine, and drafted a first novel in emulation of Aldous Huxley
. Wyatt-Brown, Anne M. Barbara Pym: A Critical Biography. University of Missouri Press, 1992. 19-21, 187 |
Education | Enid Bagnold | This small, progressive school, which emphasized the study of art, literature, and theatre, was founded and headed by Julia (Mrs Leonard) Huxley
, mother of Aldous Huxley
and sister of the novelist Mary Augusta Ward |
Education | Barbara Pym | BP
responded strongly to the intellectual and social opportunities available at university. In her diary (begun in in the year she went up to Oxford and continued for most of her life) she wrote: Oxford... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elspeth Huxley | In this job she worked closely with Gervas Huxley
(cousin of the writer Aldous
and the biologist and Julian
), who was head of the Board
's Publicity Committee, and began going out with him... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Augusta Ward | Through her sister Julia, MAW
became aunt to the novelist Aldous Huxley
; she became in part responsible for his upbringing after his mother's death. She was also his godmother, and he was christened after... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Fay Weldon | FW
's mother, Margaret (Jepson) Birkinshaw, got married at nineteen at least partly because her home was broken up by the successive defection of her father (to a mistress) and mother (back to her own... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Nancy Cunard | NC
had a brief affair with Aldous Huxley
; he too went on to use her as the basis of characters in more than one of his novels. Chisholm, Anne. Nancy Cunard. Knopf, 1979. 75 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sybille Bedford | Since the first attempt had been prevented by Home Office
suspicion that SB
was an undesirable foreign prostitute taking this means to begin plying her trade in Britain, the best man on the second occasion... |
Fictionalization | Nancy Cunard | NC
was cast as Iris March in Michael Arlen's The Green Hat, as Lucy Tantamount in Aldous Huxley
's Point Counter Point, as Baby Bucktrout in Wyndham Lewis
's The Roaring Queen... |
Fictionalization | Lady Ottoline Morrell | LOM
inspired a number of fictional creations by her associates. D. H. Lawrence
drew a hostile portrait of her as Hermione Roddice in Women in Love (1920). She reappears as Priscilla Wimbush in Aldous Huxley |
Timeline
1 October 1908
In the USA, the Model T Ford car, manufactured by Henry Ford
's company, with a base price of $US825, first became available to dealers.
From early summer 1915
Garsington Manor, near Oxford, the home of Lady Ottoline
and Philip Morrell
, became a centre for many pacifists, conscientious objectors, and non-pacifist critics of the war.
1928
Edwin Muir
published The Structure of the Novel.
1929
The painter Tamara de Lempicka
painted a self-portrait at the wheel of a green Bugatti car, which is widely felt to be an important icon of the Jazz Age.
After February 1932
An appeal of Count Potocki of Montalk
's case was heard; and although he was not cleared, an advance in obscene libel cases was made.
21-25 June 1935
The First International Congress of Writers for the Defence of Culture (an anti-fascist event urging the responsibility of writers to their society) was held in Paris.
22 May 1936
The Peace Pledge Union
was founded by Canon Dick Sheppard
.
7 April 1956
In correspondence (in verse) with Aldous Huxley
, psychiatrist Humphrey Osmond
(who had been researching the effects of mescaline with Huxley's enthusiastic participation) coined the word psychedelic.
Borne Back Daily.
7 April 2011