“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
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Edith Sitwell | By 1919 ES
was also friendly with Arnold Bennett
and his wife Marguerite
. Wyndham Lewis
became a great friend, did many drawings of her, and demonstrated a sexual interest in her as well, which... |
| Friends, Associates | Stella Benson | SB
became a close friend of the artists Cuthbert
and Lady Eileen Orde
. Grant, Joy. Stella Benson: A Biography. Macmillan. 241 Grant, Joy. Stella Benson: A Biography. Macmillan. 244, 245-6 |
| Friends, Associates | Lady Ottoline Morrell | Along with its owners, the manor was frequently full of guests: writers and artists among them included Katherine Mansfield
, D. H. Lawrence
, Aldous Huxley
, Siegfried Sassoon
, W. B. Yeats
, and... |
| 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... |
| Friends, Associates | Dorothy Brett | 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... |
| Health | Isak Dinesen | ID
and Hatton experimented with opium, hashish, and miraa, a hallucinogenic African herb. Dinesen met Aldous Huxley
during the 1930s. In August 1961 he and Timothy Leary
visited her while they were in Denmark... |
| 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 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Barbara Pym | |
| 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 | Frances Sheridan | David Garrick
showed his confidence in the play by agreeing to take a role secondary to that of Thomas Sheridan
as male lead. The young dramatist John O'Keeffe
long remembered the opening as delightful and... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Evelyn Underhill | Towards the end of her life, during the years that led up to World War Two, EU
became a declared pacifist and began writing tracts in support of that cause. It is unclear precisely... |
| Leisure and Society | Leonora Carrington | In her old age, LC
recalled her sensations on that night: I was wearing a tiara . . . . And it was biting into my skull. Moorhead, Joanna. The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington. Virago Press. 21 |
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