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.
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.
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At one event during the season, she...
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...
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wrote her first (unpublished) novel, Young Men in Fancy Dress, much influenced by Aldous Huxley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.
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Intertextuality and Influence
Barbara Pym
While at boarding school and Oxford
, BP
was heavily influenced by the novels of Aldous Huxley
, whose books inspired her to become a writer.
In this she resembles an otherwise entirely different writer,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
