“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 ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Virginia Woolf | Orlando set a new level in VW
's public reputation. The usual polarization of reviews was represented by J. C. Squire
in The Observer calling it a very pleasant trifle that would entertain the drawing-rooms... |
| Literary responses | Amanda McKittrick Ros | Other commentators, such as Mark Twain
and Aldous Huxley
, however, valued the uniqueness of her style. Twain found her enchanting. Huxley cited her as highly prized by her readers, qtd. in Ros, Amanda McKittrick. “Introduction”. Thine in Storm and Calm, edited by Frank Ormsby, Blackstaff Press, 1988, pp. 1-22. 1 |
| 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, 2017. 21 |
| 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... |
| 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 | |
| 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... |
| 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 | 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 |
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