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 Alfred Wolmark
ink, 1928
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by Paul Hamann
bronze life-mask, 1981, based on a work of 1930
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by Howard Coster
gelatin silver print, 1934
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by Cecil Beaton
vintage bromide print on white card mount, 1936
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by Maria Petrie (née Zimmern)
bronze head, 1959
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Lady Ottoline Morrell with friends
possibly by Philip Edward Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1916
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Lady Ottoline Morrell with friends
possibly by Philip Edward Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1916
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1916
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1917
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(Arthur) Richard Murry; Aldous Huxley
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1917
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Madeline Clinkard; Aldous Huxley; Mark Gertler; Philip Edward Morrell
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; Philip Edward Morrell
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1917
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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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