Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Maria Huxley
Standard Name: Huxley, Maria
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Aldous Huxley | AH
married Maria Nys
in Belgium. None of his family attended the wedding. Bedford, Sybille. Aldous Huxley. Knopf; Harper & Row, 1974. 104 |
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 | Edith Sitwell | By 1919 ES
was also friendly with Arnold Bennett
and his wife Marguerite
. Wyndham Lewis
became a great friend, did many drawings of her, and demonstrated a sexual interest in her as well, which... |
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 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Aldous Huxley | Island, the final novel by AH
(begun after the death of his first wife, Maria
), appeared. It is adjudged by literary historian Sutherland, John, b. 1938. “Was Ma Hump to blame?”. London Review of Books, 11 July 2002, pp. 32-5. 35 Putt, S. Gorley. “What All the Fuss is About”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 3135, 30 Mar. 1962, p. 213. 213 |
politics | Lady Ottoline Morrell | She became an activist for pacifism, a movement in which she played many roles. She joined the Union for Democratic Control
, whose meetings were soon being held at her home (and whose members included... |
politics | Sybille Bedford | At this time, with a German passport near its expiry date and an application for French citizenship which had so far gone nowhere, she attracted the attention of the Nazi authorities not only by expressing... |
politics | Sybille Bedford | The Huxleys and an un-named barrister friend produced a man sympathetic to political refugees and willing to marry her for money: Terry Bedford. The couple met for the first time at the Albany in Piccadilly... |
Publishing | Sybille Bedford | She mentions a total of three novels finished, typed, re-typed (by myself), sent the round of publishers in London and New York . . . rejected. Rightly. They were not good enough. For me it... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sybille Bedford | This book, both scholarly and immediate, draws on first-hand memory and on private letters and journals as well as those that are publicly accessible. The first volume reaches to the publication of Eyeless in Gaza... |
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