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.
She became an activist for pacifism, a movement in which she played many roles. She joined the Union for Democratic Control
, whose meetings were soon being held at her home (and whose members included...
LOM
inspired a number of fictional creations by her associates. D. H. Lawrence
drew a hostile portrait of her as Hermione Roddice in Women in Love (1920). She reappears as Priscilla Wimbush in Aldous Huxley
Textual Features
Winifred Peck
The story opens with a young man returning from the First World War and ends with young people returning from the second. At the outset seventeen-year-old Miranda Rae, living in Devon with her family, receives...
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
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wrote her first (unpublished) novel, Young Men in Fancy Dress, much influenced by Aldous Huxley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.
22, 187
Education
Barbara Pym
At school Barbara chaired the Literary Society, published short stories in the school's magazine, and drafted a first novel in emulation of Aldous Huxley
.
Wyatt-Brown, Anne M. Barbara Pym: A Critical Biography. University of Missouri Press.
19-21, 187
Education
Barbara Pym
BP
responded strongly to the intellectual and social opportunities available at university. In her diary (begun in in the year she went up to Oxford and continued for most of her life) she wrote: Oxford...
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...
Literary responses
Amanda McKittrick Ros
Other commentators, such as Mark Twain
and Aldous Huxley
, however, valued the uniqueness of her style. Twain found her enchanting. Huxley cited her as highly prized by her readers,
Ros, Amanda McKittrick. “Introduction”. Thine in Storm and Calm, edited by Frank Ormsby, Blackstaff Press, pp. 1-22.
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and wrote of...
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
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...
