Julia Huxley

EA began attending the newly founded Oxford Girls' High School  in alongside her older sister Julia Arnold .

The school, which was populated by the daughters of Oxford dons who had recently been allowed to marry and have families, had a feminist atmosphere. The students debated topics like rational dress and women’s education...

EA's uncle Matthew Arnold , a leading writer of the Victorian period, was the author of such texts as Culture and Anarchy. Her sister Mary Augusta, known as Mrs Humphry Ward , was one...

One of MAW 's younger sisters became the writer, lecturer, and photographer Ethel Arnold . Another, Julia , who was eleven years younger than Mary Augusta, was an early graduate of Somerville College, Oxford ...

His mother, born Julia Arnold , was a younger sister of Mary Augusta Ward and a niece of Matthew Arnold . She took a first-class English honours degree at the new Somerville College, Oxford ...

EA, with her sister Julia , was one of Lewis Carroll ’s child-friends. He helped her through a difficult childhood and the death of her mother, and she remembered him fondly in later years. Carroll...

This small, progressive school, which emphasized the study of art, literature, and theatre, was founded and headed by Julia (Mrs Leonard) Huxley , mother of Aldous Huxley and sister of the novelist Mary Augusta Ward

When Aunt Mary (aunt of the protagonist, Will Farnaby) dies horribly and bitterly of cancer, full of a hatred quite unlike her former, characteristic charity and courage, Sutherland reads her as a blend of...