Leonard Huxley

Aldous's father, Leonard Huxley , was a brilliant man whose rejection of religious belief closed many potential careers to him. He worked as a schoolmaster until 1901, when through the influence of his sister-in-law Mary...

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 ...

Back from the Middle East, FS began to write about her experiences abroad: starting in November 1928, she published short pieces in Cornhill Magazine, then edited by Leonard Huxley . Through Huxley she met...

As a result of the growing appreciation of JWC 's writing, in 1924 Leonard Huxley published Jane Welsh Carlyle: Letters to Her Family, 1839-1863. The volume comprises letters to her maternal relatives in...

Tharaya is the Arab name for the star at the centre of the Pleiades constellation. The Cornhill's editor, Leonard Huxley , agreed that it was appropriate for Stark to use a pseudonym in order...