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.
Whilst at Garsington, Brett also developed close friendships with Aldous Huxley
and his future wife Maria Nys
(she was said to have provided the basis for Jenny Mullion in Huxley's first novel, Crome Yellow...
Friends, Associates
Elizabeth Bishop
Important among EB
's friendships were those with Marianne Moore
(whom she met in March 1934 while she was still at college and learned a lot from in her early years in New York, but...
Grant, Joy. Stella Benson: A Biography. Macmillan.
244, 245-6
Textual Features
Sybille Bedford
Having just met Aldous Huxley
, SB
made her work what she called diluted Aldous Huxley—Aldous Huxley and plain water.
Bedford, Sybille. Jigsaw. Penguin.
314
What finally set her free from Huxley's influence, she later wrote, was probably the...
Textual Production
Sybille Bedford
About 1933, after the rejection of the first novel, Klaus Mann
generously accepted SB
's offer of a review essay on Aldous Huxley
's recent Beyond the Mexique Bay for his new review Die Sammlung...
Publishing
Sybille Bedford
She mentions a total of three novels finished, typed, re-typed (by myself), sent the round of publishers in London and New York . . . rejected. Rightly. They were not good enough. For me it...
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...
Textual Production
Sybille Bedford
SB
published the first volume of Aldous Huxley
: A Biography, the life of her friend which she had undertaken at the request of his family. She completed it with a second volume in...
Friends, Associates
Sybille Bedford
After the Robbinses, SB
's next English guardian-equivalents were bibliographer Percy Muir
and his wife Toni
, with Toni's sister Kate. They introduced her to the writing of Aldous Huxley
and the fascinations of the...
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.
249-50
She was later embarrassed by her earlier admiration for...
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...
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.
367
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
Textual Production
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice has been many times adapted for the theatre and for the large and small screens. Both A. A. Milne
and the Australian dramatist Helen Jerome
produced stage versions during the 1930s, and...
Friends, Associates
Lady Cynthia Asquith
As well as her close relationships with Angela Thirkell
and Barrie
, LCA
built a significant friendship with the novelist D. H. Lawrence
(who has been seen as drawing her portrait in The Blind Man...
