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.
Here, Morrell
and another guest, writer Aldous Huxley
(who were both friends of and loyal to Carrington's admirer Mark Gertler
), confronted Carrington about her reluctance to give up her virginity. She described the episode...
Cultural formation
Sybille Bedford
Around 1964, soon after suffering the deaths of Aldous Huxley
and of another close friend, SB
accepted the suggestion of Rosamond Lehmann
and visited a medium, who purported to deliver her a message from Huxley.
Hastings, Selina. Rosamond Lehmann. Chatto and Windus, 2002.
367
death
Ethel M. Arnold
After a series of health complications affecting her heart, lungs, and liver, Ethel Arnold
died at the home of her friend Agnes Williams-Freeman
, Merivale Cottage on the Isle of Wight. She willed the...
death
Mary Augusta Ward
It was said that at her death a copy of Limbo, the first publication of her nephew Aldous Huxley
, was found at her bedside. Its opening story incorporates a hostile and no doubt...
Education
Philip Larkin
For ten years from 1930, as both a primary and a secondary-school student, PL
attended King Henry VIII School
in Coventry (now an independent school for both sexes, but founded in the sixteenth century as...
Education
Barbara Pym
At school Barbara chaired the Literary Society, published short stories in the school's magazine, and drafted a first novel in emulation of Aldous Huxley
.
Wyatt-Brown, Anne M. Barbara Pym: A Critical Biography. University of Missouri Press, 1992.
19-21, 187
Education
Enid Bagnold
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
Education
Barbara Pym
BP
responded strongly to the intellectual and social opportunities available at university. In her diary (begun in in the year she went up to Oxford and continued for most of her life) she wrote: Oxford...
Education
Pamela Hansford Johnson
She said her only Higher Education was the one in English literature provided by Aldous Huxley
's anthology Texts and Pretexts, 1933. While she believed that a degree course in literature would have been...
Family and Intimate relationships
Fay Weldon
FW
's mother, Margaret (Jepson) Birkinshaw, got married at nineteen at least partly because her home was broken up by the successive defection of her father (to a mistress) and mother (back to her own...
Family and Intimate relationships
Mary Augusta Ward
Through her sister Julia, MAW
became aunt to the novelist Aldous Huxley
; she became in part responsible for his upbringing after his mother's death. She was also his godmother, and he was christened after...
Family and Intimate relationships
Sybille Bedford
Since the first attempt had been prevented by Home Office
suspicion that SB
was an undesirable foreign prostitute taking this means to begin plying her trade in Britain, the best man on the second occasion...
Family and Intimate relationships
Nancy Cunard
NC
had a brief affair with Aldous Huxley
; he too went on to use her as the basis of characters in more than one of his novels.
Chisholm, Anne. Nancy Cunard. Knopf, 1979.
75
Family and Intimate relationships
Elspeth Huxley
In this job she worked closely with Gervas Huxley
(cousin of the writer Aldous
and the biologist and Julian
), who was head of the Board
's Publicity Committee, and began going out with him...
Fictionalization
Dora Carrington
For Aldous Huxley
, who attacked her in 1916 for her choice to remain a virgin, Carrington became in Crome Yellow the damagingly-named Mary Bracegirdle, a young woman determined to lose her virginity only because...
Timeline
1 October 1908: In the USA, the Model T Ford car, manufactured...
Building item
1 October 1908
In the USA, the Model T Ford car, manufactured by Henry Ford
's company, with a base price of $US825, first became available to dealers.
Garraty, John A., and Mark C. Carnes, editors. American National Biography. Oxford University Press, 1999, 24 vols.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
12 August 2009
From early summer 1915: Garsington Manor, near Oxford, the home of...
Building item
From early summer 1915
Garsington Manor, near Oxford, the home of Lady Ottoline
and Philip Morrell
, became a centre for many pacifists, conscientious objectors, and non-pacifist critics of the war.
Berkman, Joyce Avrech. Pacifism in England, 1914-1939. Yale University, 1967, http://U of A HSS.
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Seymour, Miranda. Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1992.
223-4
1928: Edwin Muir published The Structure of the...
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Kermode, Frank. “Fiction and E. M. Forster”. London Review of Books, 10 May 2007, pp. 15-24.
17
1929: The painter Tamara de Lempicka painted a...
Building item
1929
The painter Tamara de Lempicka
painted a self-portrait at the wheel of a green Bugatti car, which is widely felt to be an important icon of the Jazz Age.
After February 1932: An appeal of Count Potocki of Montalk's case...
Writing climate item
After February 1932
An appeal of Count Potocki of Montalk
's case was heard; and although he was not cleared, an advance in obscene libel cases was made.
Craig, Alec. The Banned Books of England and Other Countries. George Allen and Unwin, 1962.
89-90
21-25 June 1935: The First International Congress of Writers...
National or international item
21-25 June 1935
The First International Congress of Writers for the Defence of Culture (an anti-fascist event urging the responsibility of writers to their society) was held in Paris.
Rowley, Hazel. Christina Stead: A Biography. Secker and Warburg, 1995.
169-77
22 May 1936: The Peace Pledge Union was founded by Canon...
Ceadel, Martin. Pacifism in Britain, 1914-1945 : The Defining of a Faith. Clarendon, 1980, http://U of A HSS.
Appendix I
Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 1995.
354
Oakley, Ann. Man and Wife: Richard and Kay Titmuss: My Parents’ Early Years. HarperCollins, 1996.
69
7 April 1956: In correspondence (in verse) with Aldous...
Building item
7 April 1956
In correspondence (in verse) with Aldous Huxley
, psychiatrist Humphrey Osmond
(who had been researching the effects of mescaline with Huxley's enthusiastic participation) coined the word psychedelic.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
7 April 2011
Texts
Huxley, Aldous, editor. An Encyclopaedia of Pacifism. Chatto & Windus, 1937.
Huxley, Aldous. Antic Hay. Chatto and Windus, 1923.
Huxley, Aldous. Antic Hay and The Gioconda Smile. Harper, 1957.
Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World. Chatto and Windus, 1932.
Huxley, Aldous. Crome Yellow. Chatto and Windus, 1921.
Huxley, Aldous. Eyeless in Gaza. Chatto and Windus, 1936.
Huxley, Aldous. Heaven and Hell. Chatto and Windus, 1956.
Huxley, Aldous. Island. Chatto and Windus, 1962.
Huxley, Aldous. Letters of Aldous Huxley. Editor Smith, Grover, Chatto and Windus, 1969.
Huxley, Aldous. Limbo. Chatto and Windus, 1920.
Huxley, Aldous. Literature and Science. Chatto and Windus, 1963.
Huxley, Aldous. Mortal Coils. Chatto and Windus, 1922.
Huxley, Aldous. Mortal Coils. Chatto and Windus, 1958.
Huxley, Aldous. Point Counter Point. Chatto and Windus, 1928.
Huxley, Aldous. Point Counter Point. Penguin, 1967.
Huxley, Aldous, editor. Texts and Pretexts. Chatto and Windus, 1932.
Huxley, Aldous. The Doors of Perception. Chatto and Windus, 1954.
