Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Sir Julian
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Family and Intimate relationships | Aldous Huxley | His eldest brother, Julian
, followed the family tradition in becoming both a scientist and a philosopher. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Sir Julian |
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... |
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 | Ruth Pitter | RP
knew T. S. Eliot
well enough to enjoy a courtly encounter with him at a bus stop, but she felt his great innovations had not necessarily been a good thing for English poetry, and... |
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, 1944. 74 |
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 | 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, 1995, pp. 161-83. 164 Benton, Jill. Naomi Mitchison: A Biography. Pandora, 1992. 22 |
Literary responses | Aldous Huxley | At its appearance the Times Literary Supplement's review was lukewarm, saying that all the characters speak too clearly with the voice of the author, and that though sometimes an excitement of discovery underlies descriptive... |
Literary responses | Elspeth Huxley | |
Occupation | Marghanita Laski | ML
's high public profile largely resulted from her radio work. One of her earliest wireless programmes, The Brains Trust, first went on air on 1 January 1941. In this highly intelligent quiz series... |
politics | Virginia Woolf | On 10 May Germany had invaded Holland and Belgium. In the event of an invasion of England, they could indeed expect a terrible personal fate, on account of their anti-war politics, Leonard's anti-war career and... |
politics | Dorothy Wellesley | Her fellow signatories included Violet Bonham Carter
, Stafford Cripps
, archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans
, historian H. A. L. Fisher
, scientist-philosopher Julian Huxley
, sculptor Laura Knight
, writers Edith Lyttelton
and J. B. Priestley |
politics | Dora Russell | The Council for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons
(forerunner of CND) was founded. DR
was present at its inaugural meeting next day; other prominent members were Vera Brittain
, Julian Huxley
, J. B. Priestley |
Textual Production | Storm Jameson | SJ
edited and wrote in Challenge to Death: A Symposium on War and Peace, an anthology featuring Vera Brittain
, Winifred Holtby
, Rebecca West
, Edmund Blunden
, Julian Huxley
, J. B. Priestley
, and Guy Chapman
. Birkett, Jennifer. Margaret Storm Jameson: A Life. Oxford University Press, 2009. 123n53 Jameson, Storm, editor. Challenge to Death. Constable, 1934. prelims Jameson, Storm. Journey from the North. Harper and Row, 1970. 326-7 |
Textual Production | Sybille Bedford | She had already contributed an article on him to a volume edited by Julian Huxley
in 1965: Aldous Huxley, 1894-1963. A Memorial Volume. She later referred to her work on the biography as a... |
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