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.
As well as her close relationships with Angela Thirkell
and Barrie
, LCA
built a significant friendship with the novelist D. H. Lawrence
(who has been seen as drawing her portrait in The Blind Man...
Textual Production
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...
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
Textual Production
Sybille Bedford
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...
Friends, Associates
Sybille Bedford
After the Robbinses, SB
's next English guardian-equivalents were bibliographer Percy Muir
and his wife Toni
, with Toni's sister Kate. They introduced her to the writing of Aldous Huxley
and the fascinations of the...
Friends, Associates
Sybille Bedford
Introduced to Aldous Huxley
and his wife Maria
by the South African poet Roy Campbell
while at Sanary, the young SB
became their intimate friend.
Bedford, Sybille. Quicksands. Counterpoint.
249-50
She was later embarrassed by her earlier admiration for...
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...
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.
367
Textual Features
Sybille Bedford
Having just met Aldous Huxley
, SB
made her work what she called diluted Aldous Huxley—Aldous Huxley and plain water.
Bedford, Sybille. Jigsaw. Penguin.
314
What finally set her free from Huxley's influence, she later wrote, was probably the...
Textual Production
Sybille Bedford
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...
Publishing
Sybille Bedford
She mentions a total of three novels finished, typed, re-typed (by myself), sent the round of publishers in London and New York . . . rejected. Rightly. They were not good enough. For me it...
Intertextuality and Influence
Sybille Bedford
SB
prefaces the book with five epigraphs, four from Anon and one from Aldous Huxley
, leading the reader to suspect that Anon is herself. The opening sentence is I shall begin as I hope...
Grant, Joy. Stella Benson: A Biography. Macmillan.
244, 245-6
Friends, Associates
Elizabeth Bishop
Important among EB
's friendships were those with Marianne Moore
(whom she met in March 1934 while she was still at college and learned a lot from in her early years in New York, but...
Occupation
Dorothy Brett
After graduating from the Slade School of Art, DB
became a professional artist. Her most famous early exhibition piece was War Widows, painted in 1916, in which a crowd of black-clad pregnant women take...
Timeline
1 October 1908: In the USA, the Model T Ford car, manufactured...
Building item
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...
Building item
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...
Writing climate item
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...
National or international item
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...
Building item
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.
