“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
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.
Connections
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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, pp. 161-83. 164 Benton, Jill. Naomi Mitchison: A Biography. Pandora. 22 |
Friends, Associates | Katherine Mansfield | This time Mary Hutchinson
, Clive Bell
, Aldous Huxley
, T. W. Earp
, Brett
, J. M. Keynes
, and J. T. Sheppard
were there. KM
was back for further weekends in September... |
Literary responses | Ethel Mannin | Critic Andy Croft
calls these unremarkable novels, generic and conventional, Croft, Andy. “Ethel Mannin: The Red Rose of Love and the Red Flower of Liberty”. Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals: British Women Writers 1889-1939, edited by Angela Ingram and Daphne Patai, University of North Carolina Press, pp. 205-25. 209 |
Textual Features | Rose Macaulay | The book concerns the illicit love of Kitty Grammont for her boss at the Ministry of Brains, Nicholas Chester, who is not allowed to marry under the eugenics laws in force in this society of... |
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. 191 Babington Smith, Constance. Rose Macaulay. Collins. 100 |
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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Q. D. Leavis | |
Textual Production | D. H. Lawrence | Viking Press
posthumously published The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, introduced by Aldous Huxley
. Roberts, Warren. A Bibliography of D.H. Lawrence. Hart-Davis. 140 “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Marghanita Laski | ML
defines ecstasy as experiences that are joyful, transitory, unexpected, rare, valued, and extraordinary to the point of often seeming as if derived from a praeternatural source. Laski, Marghanita. Ecstasy: A Study of Some Secular and Religious Experiences. Cresset Press. 5 |
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... |
Textual Production | E. B. C. Jones | Her contributors included Jane Barlow
, Frank Betts
, Elizabeth Bridges (later Daryush)
, M. St Clare Byrne
, Elsa L. Duff
, A. P. Herbert
, Aldous Huxley
, E. H. W. Meyerstein
,... |
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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Storm Jameson | Jameson names Woolf and Huxley
as the two most promising Georgian novelists, but finds their engagement with non-literary movements to be weak. She writes of Woolf's recent Orlando, for instance, that [w]hat we see... |
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... |
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... |
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