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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 | 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 | 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, 1991. 191 Babington Smith, Constance. Rose Macaulay. Collins, 1972. 100 |
| 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, 2005. 249-50 |
| 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... |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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, 1992. 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 | 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... |
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