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, 1917
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Aldous Huxley with Lady Ottoline Morrell's pug Soie
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1917
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1917
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Aldous Huxley; Mark Gertler; (Arthur) Richard Murry
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1917
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Aldous Huxley; (Arthur) Richard Murry
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1917
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Aldous Huxley; Dorothy Brett; Lady Ottoline Morrell; Philip Edward Morrell
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, 1917
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1917
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Dorothy Brett; Aldous Huxley with Lady Ottoline Morrell's pug Soie
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1917
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Dorothy Brett; Mark Gertler; Aldous Huxley with Lady Ottoline Morrell's pug Soie
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1917
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Mark Gertler; Dorothy Brett; Aldous Huxley
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1917
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Mark Gertler; Aldous Huxley; Dorothy Brett
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1917
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Aldous Huxley; Dorothy Brett; Mark Gertler
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1917
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Aldous Huxley; Dorothy Brett; Mark Gertler
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1917
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Mark Gertler; Dorothy Brett; Aldous Huxley
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1917
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Mark Gertler; Aldous Huxley; Dorothy Brett
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1917
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Aldous Huxley; Eric Charles Dickinson; Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1920
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1920
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1920
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1920
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Aldous Huxley and an unknown man
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1920
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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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