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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Textual Production 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...
Intertextuality and Influence Muriel Jaeger
Brian Stableford discussed this book in Scientific Romance in Britain 1890-1950, 1986 (the only text by a woman that he considered). He judged that it influenced Aldous Huxley 's far more famous Brave New...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text 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...
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...
Textual Production E. B. C. Jones
Her contributors included Jane Barlow , Frank Betts , Elizabeth Bridges (later Daryush) , M. St Clare Byrne , Elsa L. Duff , A. P. Herbert , Aldous Huxley , E. H. W. Meyerstein ,...
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Marghanita Laski
ML 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...
Textual Production D. H. Lawrence
Viking Press posthumously published The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, introduced by Aldous Huxley .
Roberts, Warren. A Bibliography of D.H. Lawrence. Hart-Davis.
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“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text 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...
Friends, Associates Vernon Lee
Back in Italy after the end of the First World War, VL continued to read widely. She returned to Dante , Shakespeare , and Goethe . She introduced herself to newer writings on philosophy, science...
Friends, Associates Rose Macaulay
In 1921 RM was spending several nights a week in a room she rented in the large house of writer Naomi Royde-Smith at 44 Prince's Gardens, Kensington.
Emery, Jane. Rose Macaulay: A Writer’s Life. John Murray.
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Babington Smith, Constance. Rose Macaulay. Collins.
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Chosen by Royde-Smith as a...
Textual Features Rose Macaulay
The book concerns the illicit love of Kitty Grammont for her boss at the Ministry of Brains, Nicholas Chester, who is not allowed to marry under the eugenics laws in force in this society of...
Literary responses Ethel Mannin
Critic Andy Croft calls these unremarkable novels, generic and conventional,
Croft, Andy. “Ethel Mannin: The Red Rose of Love and the Red Flower of Liberty”. Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals: British Women Writers 1889-1939, edited by Angela Ingram and Daphne Patai, University of North Carolina Press, pp. 205-25.
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but Beverly E. Schneller in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography says that Sounding Brass (which follows its power-hungry protagonist, Rickard, from young manhood...
Friends, Associates Katherine Mansfield
This time Mary Hutchinson , Clive Bell , Aldous Huxley , T. W. Earp , Brett , J. M. Keynes , and J. T. Sheppard were there. KM was back for further weekends in September...
Friends, Associates Naomi Mitchison
Naomi's close childhood friends included Julian and Aldous Huxley . Close family friends included Florence Buchanan , distinguished physiologist, and Marie Stopes , paleobotanist and birth control educator (the latter role emerged only later).
Squier, Susan M., and Naomi Mitchison. “Naomi Mitchison: The Feminist Art of Making Things Difficult”. Solution Three, Feminist Press at The City University of New York, pp. 161-83.
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Benton, Jill. Naomi Mitchison: A Biography. Pandora.
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