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.
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...
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
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...
Family and Intimate relationships
Mary Augusta Ward
Through her sister Julia, MAW
became aunt to the novelist Aldous Huxley
; she became in part responsible for his upbringing after his mother's death. She was also his godmother, and he was christened after...
Family and Intimate relationships
Fay Weldon
FW
's mother, Margaret (Jepson) Birkinshaw, got married at nineteen at least partly because her home was broken up by the successive defection of her father (to a mistress) and mother (back to her own...
Family and Intimate relationships
Sybille Bedford
Since the first attempt had been prevented by Home Office
suspicion that SB
was an undesirable foreign prostitute taking this means to begin plying her trade in Britain, the best man on the second occasion...
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
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...
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
Enid Bagnold
This small, progressive school, which emphasized the study of art, literature, and theatre, was founded and headed by Julia (Mrs Leonard) Huxley
, mother of Aldous Huxley
and sister of the novelist Mary Augusta Ward
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...
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...
death
Mary Augusta Ward
It was said that at her death a copy of Limbo, the first publication of her nephew Aldous Huxley
, was found at her bedside. Its opening story incorporates a hostile and no doubt...
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...
Cultural formation
Sybille Bedford
Around 1964, soon after suffering the deaths of Aldous Huxley
and of another close friend, SB
accepted the suggestion of Rosamond Lehmann
and visited a medium, who purported to deliver her a message from Huxley.
Hastings, Selina. Rosamond Lehmann. Chatto and Windus.
