Aldous Huxley
(1894-1963), NovelistSitter in 114 portraits
Huxley was arguably Britain's best-known novelist of the inter-war years. His reputation followed the success of Brave New World (1932), which, set 500 years in the future, conjured a nightmare vision of an overpopulated society that has resorted to biological engineering. It followed a string of satirical works: Crome Yellow (1921), Antic Hay (1923) and Those Barren Leaves (1925). Huxley later moved to the USA, where, partly due to interest in Hindu Vedantist ideas, his writing turned to pacifism, metaphysics and the potential of human capability. This plays out in Ends and Means (1937) and the autobiographical The Doors of Perception (1953), written under the influence of the hallucinogenic drug mescaline.
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1921
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 26 June 1926
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, June 1926
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Leonard Sidney Woolf; Aldous Huxley
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, June 1926
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, June 1926
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, June 1927
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Aldous Huxley; Maria Huxley (née Nys)
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, June 1927
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Maria Huxley (née Nys); Aldous Huxley
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, June 1927
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, June 1927
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
cream-toned vintage snapshot print, 1927
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Maria Huxley (née Nys); Aldous Huxley
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
cream-toned vintage snapshot print, 1927
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Lady Ottoline Morrell; Aldous Huxley; Philip Edward Morrell
by Unknown photographer
cream-toned vintage snapshot print, 1927
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Lady Ottoline Morrell; Aldous Huxley; Philip Edward Morrell
by Unknown photographer
cream-toned vintage snapshot print, 1927
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Maria Huxley (née Nys); Aldous Huxley; Philip Edward Morrell
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
cream-toned vintage snapshot print, 1927
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Rose Nys; Matthew Huxley; Maria Huxley (née Nys); Aldous Huxley; Georges-Marie Baltus
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
cream-toned vintage snapshot print, 1927
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Aldous Huxley; Maria Huxley (née Nys); Baroness Franchitti; Philip Edward Morrell
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
cream-toned vintage snapshot print, 1927
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
cream-toned vintage snapshot print, 1927
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possibly by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1928
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possibly by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1928
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Lady Ottoline Morrell; Aldous Huxley; Maria Huxley (née Nys); Matthew Huxley
possibly by Philip Edward Morrell
vintage snapshot print, August 1930
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Related People
- Marian Collier (née Huxley) (aunt)
- Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley (brother)
- Anthony Julian Huxley (nephew)
- Francis Huxley (nephew)
- Sir Julian Huxley (brother)
- Leonard Huxley (father)
- Maria Huxley (née Nys) (wife)
- Matthew Huxley (son)
- Thomas Henry Huxley (grandfather)
- Mary Augusta Ward (née Arnold) (aunt)
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