“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
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 | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Dorothy Brett | Whilst at Garsington, Brett also developed close friendships with Aldous Huxley
and his future wife Maria Nys
(she was said to have provided the basis for Jenny Mullion in Huxley's first novel, Crome Yellow... |
| Textual Features | Mildred Cable | This book also addresses the importance of literacy throughout the world. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 195 Cable, Mildred, and Francesca French. The Book which Demands a Verdict. S. C. M. Press. 111 |
| Leisure and Society | Leonora Carrington | In her old age, LC
recalled her sensations on that night: I was wearing a tiara . . . . And it was biting into my skull. Moorhead, Joanna. The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington. Virago Press. 21 |
| 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... |
| Fictionalization | Dora Carrington | For Aldous Huxley
, who attacked her in 1916 for her choice to remain a virgin, Carrington became in Crome Yellow the damagingly-named Mary Bracegirdle, a young woman determined to lose her virginity only because... |
| Textual Production | 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. xxiv |
| Textual Production | 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... |
| Fictionalization | Blanche Warre Cornish | Aldous Huxley
is said to have portrayed BWC
as Mrs Cravister in The Farcical History of Richard Greenow, 1920, while Shane Leslie
portrayed her as Mrs Thackeray in The Oppidan, 1922. Rintoul, M. C. Dictionary of Real People and Places in Fiction. Routledge. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Francis Warre Warre-Cornish |
| 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... |
| 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. 75 |
| Friends, Associates | Nancy Cunard | Her boredom with this life (her mother's social milieu) was something that she shared with her friend Iris Tree
, also a poet. Despite her antipathy towards it, this life presented her with important literary... |
| Health | Isak Dinesen | ID
and Hatton experimented with opium, hashish, and miraa, a hallucinogenic African herb. Dinesen met Aldous Huxley
during the 1930s. In August 1961 he and Timothy Leary
visited her while they were in Denmark... |
| Textual Production | 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... |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Agnes Hamilton | One of Lee's beliefs, pronounced that evening, was: Patriotism . . . is the power to be ashamed of your country. Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape. 74 |
| 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... |
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