Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
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defines ecstasy as experiences that are joyful, transitory, unexpected, rare, valued, and extraordinary to the point of often seeming as if derived from a praeternatural source.
Laski, Marghanita. Ecstasy: A Study of Some Secular and Religious Experiences. Cresset Press.
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An ecstatic state is one in which...
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Q. D. Leavis
Here and elsewhere she published on a wide range of authors and literary topics, including Trollope
, Hardy
, Gissing
, Forster
, Orwell
, and Aldous Huxley
; the Anglo-Irish, American, French, Italian, and...
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Storm Jameson
Jameson names Woolf and Huxley
as the two most promising Georgian novelists, but finds their engagement with non-literary movements to be weak. She writes of Woolf's recent Orlando, for instance, that [w]hat we see...
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Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice has been many times adapted for the theatre and for the large and small screens. Both A. A. Milne
and the Australian dramatist Helen Jerome
produced stage versions during the 1930s, and...
SB
published the first volume of Aldous Huxley
: A Biography, the life of her friend which she had undertaken at the request of his family. She completed it with a second volume in...
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Catherine Carswell
CC
felt compelled to answer John Middleton Murry
's book on Lawrence, Son of Woman, in which he argued it takes a great man to be wrong as Lawrence was wrong.
Carswell, John, and Catherine Carswell. “Introduction”. The Savage Pilgrimage: A Narrative of D. H. Lawrence, Cambridge University Press, p. v - xxxv.
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Carswell, obviously...
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Catherine Carswell
CC
's busiest literary decade was the 1930s, years after she stopped writing novels. She kept reviewing, and began a new career as a broadcaster. She co-edited two anthologies with Daniel George
: A National...
About 1933, after the rejection of the first novel, Klaus Mann
generously accepted SB
's offer of a review essay on Aldous Huxley
's recent Beyond the Mexique Bay for his new review Die Sammlung...
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Mavis Gallant
Despite this promising request, she received no news regarding the subsequent stories she submitted from Europe. While living in poverty in Madrid, MG
happened across one of her recently submitted stories, One Morning in...
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Elspeth Huxley
It had a foreword by conservationist and ornithologist Peter Scott
(though he disliked the choice of title, thinking it too gimmicky for serious scientists). EH
's relationship (by marriage) to Aldous Huxley
, author of...
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Iris Tree
Sitwell included five poems by Tree in the first cycle, eight in the second, and nine in each of the third and fourth cycles. The anthology, which extended to six cycles in all, also included...
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Lady Ottoline Morrell
LOM
began work on her memoirs in 1919, and returned to them more seriously in 1925.
Seymour, Miranda. Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale. Farrar Straus Giroux.
1 October 1908: In the USA, the Model T Ford car, manufactured...
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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...
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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...
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...
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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...
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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...
7 April 1956: In correspondence (in verse) with Aldous...
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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. http://borneback.com/ .
7 April 2011
Texts
Huxley, Aldous, editor. An Encyclopaedia of Pacifism. Chatto & Windus, 1937.
Huxley, Aldous. Antic Hay. Chatto and Windus, 1923.
Huxley, Aldous. Antic Hay and The Gioconda Smile. Harper, 1957.
Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World. Chatto and Windus, 1932.
Huxley, Aldous. Crome Yellow. Chatto and Windus, 1921.
Huxley, Aldous. Eyeless in Gaza. Chatto and Windus, 1936.
Huxley, Aldous. Island. Chatto and Windus, 1962.
Huxley, Aldous. Letters of Aldous Huxley. Editor Smith, Grover, Chatto and Windus, 1969.
Huxley, Aldous. Limbo. Chatto and Windus, 1920.
Huxley, Aldous. Literature and Science. Chatto and Windus, 1963.
Huxley, Aldous. Mortal Coils. Chatto and Windus, 1922.
Huxley, Aldous. Mortal Coils. Chatto and Windus, 1958.
Huxley, Aldous. Point Counter Point. Chatto and Windus, 1928.
Huxley, Aldous. Point Counter Point. Penguin, 1967.
Huxley, Aldous, editor. Texts and Pretexts. Chatto and Windus, 1932.
Huxley, Aldous. The Doors of Perception. Chatto and Windus, 1954.