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Aldous Huxley

(1894-1963), Novelist

Sitter 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.

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Aldous Huxley, by Lady Ottoline Morrell - NPG Ax140595

Aldous Huxley

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1917
NPG Ax140595

Aldous Huxley, by Lady Ottoline Morrell - NPG Ax140597

Aldous Huxley

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1917
NPG Ax140597

Aldous Huxley; Dorothy Brett, by Lady Ottoline Morrell - NPG Ax140685

Aldous Huxley; Dorothy Brett

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1917
NPG Ax140685

The Huxley family, by Lady Ottoline Morrell - NPG Ax140859

The Huxley family

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1920
NPG Ax140859

Aldous Huxley; Matthew Huxley, by Lady Ottoline Morrell - NPG Ax140861

Aldous Huxley; Matthew Huxley

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1920
NPG Ax140861

Aldous Huxley; Mr Brookes, by Lady Ottoline Morrell - NPG Ax140900

Aldous Huxley; Mr Brookes

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1920
NPG Ax140900

Aldous Huxley and an unknown man, by Lady Ottoline Morrell - NPG Ax140914

Aldous Huxley and an unknown man

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1920
NPG Ax140914

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