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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Friends, Associates Naomi Royde-Smith
NRS was a close friend of Rose Macaulay , with whom in the immediate postwar period she shared entertaining duties at her flat, in something similar to a salon. They apparently met through Macaulay contributing...
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 Dora Russell
Sylvia Pankhurst enrolled her son as a day-boy at Beacon Hill, and lived nearby while writing The Suffragette Movement; Beatrice and Sidney Webb , and G. B. Shaw also visited. The school hosted annual...
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.
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MAH credits Lady Ottoline with holding the pacifist movement together; many meetings took...
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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Friends, Associates Edith Sitwell
By 1919 ES was also friendly with Arnold Bennett and his wife Marguerite . Wyndham Lewis became a great friend, did many drawings of her, and demonstrated a sexual interest in her as well, which...
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...
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...
Intertextuality and Influence Evelyn Underhill
Towards the end of her life, during the years that led up to World War Two, EU became a declared pacifist and began writing tracts in support of that cause. It is unclear precisely...
Intertextuality and Influence Barbara Pym
At the age of sixteen, while still at school, BP wrote her first (unpublished) novel, Young Men in Fancy Dress, much influenced by Aldous Huxley .
Wyatt-Brown, Anne M. Barbara Pym: A Critical Biography. University of Missouri Press.
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Intertextuality and Influence Barbara Pym
While at boarding school and Oxford , BP was heavily influenced by the novels of Aldous Huxley , whose books inspired her to become a writer.
In this she resembles an otherwise entirely different writer,...
Intertextuality and Influence Barbara Pym
Its hero, Denis Feverel, is based on Huxley 's protagonist in Crome Yellow, Denis Stone. Following Huxley 's model, BP 's novel does not conclude with engagement or marriage, as would a conventional romance...
Intertextuality and Influence Frances Sheridan
David Garrick showed his confidence in the play by agreeing to take a role secondary to that of Thomas Sheridan as male lead. The young dramatist John O'Keeffe long remembered the opening as delightful and...
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...
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.
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At one event during the season, she...

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