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 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.
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She was later embarrassed by her earlier admiration for...
Friends, Associates Virginia Woolf
After this VW saw Ottoline Morrell many times at Garsington and at Ottoline's other salons, where guests included W. B. Yeats , Aldous Huxley , Mark Gertler , and Dorothy Brett , among many others...
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...
Friends, Associates Amanda McKittrick Ros
AMKR was a friend of Jack Loudan , who completed her last novel, Helen Huddleson, after her death and who wrote her biography. She corresponded regularly for ten years with T. S. Mercer after...
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...
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...
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...
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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