“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.
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| Textual Features | Winifred Peck | The story opens with a young man returning from the First World War and ends with young people returning from the second. At the outset seventeen-year-old Miranda Rae, living in Devon with her family, receives... |
| Textual Features | Ali Smith | Autumn centres around the intergenerational friendship of 32-year-old art-history lecturer Elisabeth Demand and her childhood neighbour, the clever and lively Daniel Gluck, now 101 years old and quietly existing in a care home. Through silent... |
| Textual Features | Sybille Bedford | Having just met Aldous Huxley
, SB
made her work what she called diluted Aldous Huxley—Aldous Huxley and plain water. Bedford, Sybille. Jigsaw. Penguin, 1990. 314 |
| Textual Production | Sybille Bedford | About 1933, after the rejection of the first novel, Klaus Mann
generously accepted SB
's offer of a review essay on Aldous Huxley
's recent Beyond the Mexique Bay for his new review Die Sammlung... |
| Textual Production | Lady Ottoline Morrell | LOM
began work on her memoirs in 1919, and returned to them more seriously in 1925. Seymour, Miranda. Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1992. 316, 345 |
| Textual Production | Mavis Gallant | Despite this promising request, she received no news regarding the subsequent stories she submitted from Europe. While living in poverty in Madrid, MG
happened across one of her recently submitted stories, One Morning in... |
| Textual Production | E. B. C. Jones | Her contributors included Jane Barlow
, Frank Betts
, Elizabeth Bridges (later Daryush)
, M. St Clare Byrne
, Elsa L. Duff
, A. P. Herbert
, Aldous Huxley
, E. H. W. Meyerstein
,... |
| Textual Production | Dorothy Richardson | In her correspondence Richardson addresses a great range of topics, including her own varied reading. She comments on women writers from Julian of Norwich
through Jane Austen
, Emily
and Charlotte Brontë
, George Eliot |
| Textual Production | D. H. Lawrence | Viking Press
posthumously published The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, introduced by Aldous Huxley
. Roberts, Warren. A Bibliography of D.H. Lawrence. Hart-Davis, 1963. 140 “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
| Textual Production | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice has been many times adapted for the theatre and for the large and small screens. Both A. A. Milne
and the Australian dramatist Helen Jerome
produced stage versions during the 1930s, and... |
| Textual Production | Sybille Bedford | SB
published the first volume of Aldous Huxley
: A Biography, the life of her friend which she had undertaken at the request of his family. She completed it with a second volume in... |
| Textual Production | Catherine Carswell | CC
felt compelled to answer John Middleton Murry
's book on Lawrence, Son of Woman, in which he argued it takes a great man to be wrong as Lawrence was wrong. qtd. in Carswell, John, and Catherine Carswell. “Introduction”. The Savage Pilgrimage: A Narrative of D. H. Lawrence, Cambridge University Press, 1981, p. v - xxxv. xxiv |
| Textual Production | Catherine Carswell | CC
's busiest literary decade was the 1930s, years after she stopped writing novels. She kept reviewing, and began a new career as a broadcaster. She co-edited two anthologies with Daniel George
: A National... |
| Textual Production | Iris Tree | Sitwell included five poems by Tree in the first cycle, eight in the second, and nine in each of the third and fourth cycles. The anthology, which extended to six cycles in all, also included... |
| Textual Production | Elspeth Huxley | It had a foreword by conservationist and ornithologist Peter Scott
(though he disliked the choice of title, thinking it too gimmicky for serious scientists). EH
's relationship (by marriage) to Aldous Huxley
, author of... |
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