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  Chatto and Windus AH negotiates direct after liquidation of agent AH offers to invest money in AH owes money to AH’s first publication with and AH’s interest in photo-setting AH’s loyalty to AH’s missed deadlines and Crome Yellow contracts with AH defends AH’s residence in USA and Island and missing manuscript pamphlets on pacifism receives requests for names of Bates practitioners refuses to censor Antic Hay sales and royalties unhappiness with The Devils of Loudun see also Parsons, Ian; Prentice, Charles; Raymond, Harold; Swinnerton, Frank

  Chatwin, Bruce

  Chaucer, Geoffrey

  Chelsea Book Club

  Chesterton, G.K.

  Chicago

  Chicago Herald and Examiner

  Chichicastenango, Guatemala

  Church of England

  Cicadas (poetry collection, 1931)

  cinema

  Cirque Medrano

  Clark, George

  Clark, Kenneth and Jane

  Clark, Virginia

  Clarke, Ada

  Clarke, Ernest

  ‘Claxtons, The’ (short story)

  Cocteau, Jean

  Cold War

  Cole, G.D.H.

  Colefax, George

  Colefax, Sybil

  Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

  Collier, Constance

  Collier, Ethel (aunt)

  Collier, Joan (cousin)

  Collier, John (uncle)

  colonic irrigation

  Comedy Theatre, London

  communism

  Compton, Surrey

  Conan Doyle, Arthur

  Condé Nast

  Congress of Unions for Intellectual Cooperation

  Connel Ferry, Scotland

  Connolly, Cyril interviews with AH relationship with Huxleys

  Connolly, Jean

  Conrad, Joseph

  conscientious objectors see also pacifism

  Constable (publisher)

  Control of the Mind, conference on

  Convocation on the Great Issues of Conscience in Modern Medicine

  Cooper, Gary

  Copenhagen

  Coppel, Alec

  Corbett, Margaret

  Cornhill Magazine

  Cortina d’Ampezzo

  Coster, Geraldine

  Coterie (magazine)

  Cotswolds

  Counterattack (anti-communist newsletter)

  Courtrai, Belgium

  Coward, Noel

  Cox, Katherine

  Craft, Robert

  Crome Yellow (novel, 1921) depiction of Ottoline Morrell and subsequent rift portrays other friends of AH reviews success

  Cromer, Lord

  Crows of Pearblossom, The (children’s story)

  Crucible, The (Miller)

  Cukor, George

  Cunard, Nancy AH’s relationship with depicted in Antic Hay depicted in Point Counter Point

  Curie, Marie

  Cutler, Max

  dadaism

  da Fasola, Costanza

  Daily Express

  Daily Mail

  Daily Sketch

  Daily Telegraph

  Daly’s Theatre, London

  Dante Alighieri

  D’Aranyi, Jelly AH’s relationship with

  Dark Continent (Mazower)

  Dartington, Devon

  Dartington School

  Davenport, John

  Davidson, John

  Davies, Marion

  Davies, William

  Davis, Kingsley

  Davis, Mike

  Day Lewis, Cecil

  de Acosta, Mercedes

  Death of a Salesman (Miller)

  ‘Death of Lully, The’ (short story)

  Death of Virgil, The (Broch)

  Defeat of Youth, The (poetry collection, 1918)

  De La Warr, Earl

  del Ré, Arundel

  Depression, The

  Derrida, Jacques

  Descartes, René

  Devils, The (film)

  Devils of Loudun, The (novel, 1952) Chatto request cuts of gruesome elements film of pessimism and themes reactions to stage version

  Dial, The (magazine)

  dianetics

  Dickens, Charles

  Dieulefit

  Dionysus the Areopagite

  Discovery, The (play adaptation)

  Disney, Walt

  Dixon, Campbell

  Do What You Will (essay collection, 1929)

  docks, London

  Doddite (magazine)

  Dodgson, Charles, see Carroll, Lewis

  Don Quixote (Cervantes)

  Donne, John

  ‘Doodles in the Dictionary’ (essay)

  Doors, The (group)

  Doors of Perception, The (account of drug experiences, 1954)

  Doran, George

  Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

  ‘Double Crisis, The’ (essay)

  Doubleday (publisher)

  Douglas, James

  Douglas, Jimmy

  Douglas, Norman

  Down and Out in Paris and London (Orwell)

  Dowson, Ernest

  Dryden, John

  Dufy, Raoul

  Duke University

  Dunaway, David King

  Durham

  Durrell, Lawrence

  Dynasts, The (Hardy)

  ‘E’ therapy

  Earp, Tommy

  East End, London

  Eastwood (Lawrence’s home)

  Eckhart, Meister

  Eden, Anthony

  ‘Education of an Amphibian, The’ (essay)

  Edward VII, king: funeral procession as Prince of Wales unveils statue to Thomas Huxley

  Eeman (psychotherapist)

  Egoist, The (magazine)

  Egypt

  Eiffel Tower restaurant, London

  Eliot, Thomas Stearns accepts AH poems for The Egoist addictions AH’s criticisms of AH’s friendship with anti-Semitism belief that AH’s talent was for prose not poetry and French poets influence on AH’s poetry marriages and meditation

  Elmhirst family

  Empire Marketing Board

  Encyclopaedia Britannica

  Encyclopaedia of Pacifism (pamphlet)

  Ends and Means (essay collection, 1937)

  Enemies of Promise (Connolly)

  England Made Me (Greene)

  English, Miss (teacher)

  English literature teaching

  English Poets, The (Ward)

  English Review, The (magazine)

  Enlightenment

  Erlanger, Gustav

  Eschelbach, Claire

  Esmonde, Grattan

  Esquire (magazine)

  Eton College AH’s applications for posts at AH’s teaching job at

  Eton Political Society

  Eton Review, The (magazine)

  eugenics

  ‘Eugenics’ (essay)

  Eugenics Society

  Evan, A.B.C.

  Evans, George Ewart

  Evans, Paul

  Evening Standard

  Everyman Library

  Exile in Paradise (Flügge)

  Eyeless in Gaza (novel, 1936) as AH’s best novel? AH’s difficulties in writing autobiographical elements dislocated time scheme not Hollywood material origin of title reaction of Left to mystical elements reviews success themes Trevenen Huxley depicted in

  Fanfare for Elizabeth (Sitwell)

  ‘Far Continents of the Mind, The’ (conference paper)

  ‘Farcical History of Richard Greenow, The’ (short story)

  fascism English German Italian see also Nazism

  Fasola family, see da Fasola, Costanza

  Faux Monnayeurs, Les (Gide)

  FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation)

  Fenton, Roy

  Feuchtwanger, Lion

  ‘Fifth Philosopher’s Song’ (poem)

  Firbank, Ronald

  First Word War AH on deaths of friends in AH on precocity of youth during AH unable to fight in AH works at Air Board conscientious
objectors effect on Nys family end of Ottoline Morrell and pessimism after poets of xenophobia during

  Fisher, Geoffrey

  Flaubert, Gustave

  Fletcher, John

  Flint, Frank Stuart

  Florence AH’s opinion of Huxleys’ homes and life in Huxleys’ later visits to Huxleys meet Laura Archera in Maria’s stay in before marriage

  Flügge, Manfred

  Fontaine, Joan

  Food and Agricultural Organisation conference

  Ford, Arthur

  Ford, Ford Madox

  Ford, Henry

  Ford Foundation

  Fordism

  ‘Forehead Villainous Low’ (essay)

  Forest Hills High School

  Forster, E.M.

  Forsyte Saga, The (Galsworthy)

  Forte dei Marmi, Italy AH’s liking for Huxleys’ homes and life in Huxleys’ later visits to Lawrence’s visits to Maria’s early stays in

  Fountain Press

  Foyle’s bookshop, London

  France Alps mood in 1936 see also Paris; Sanary-sur-Mer, Suresnes

  Franchetti, Luigino

  Franchetti, Yvonne

  Franchetti family

  Freud, Sigmund

  Friends House, London

  Friends of Intellectual Freedom

  Frogs (Aristophanes)

  Frost, Father Bede

  Fry, Christopher

  Fry, Roger

  Fugitive Pieces (Hutchinson)

  Furbank, P.N.

  Gabor, Dennis

  Gandhi, Mahatma

  Garbo, Greta

  Garnett, David

  Garrett, Eileen

  Garsington Manor AH considers building house at AH meets and proposes to Maria at AH’s residency and farm work at AH’s visits to contrast with AH’s teaching environment depicted in Crome Yellow Maria’s dislike of Maria’s suicide attempt at Maria’s visits to sexual ethics of see also Morrell, Ottoline

  Garson, Greer

  Gaudier-Brzeska, Henri

  Geller, James

  General Strike

  Genius and the Goddess, The (novel, 1955) stage productions

  Genova, SS

  Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Loos) musical

  George V, king

  Germany AH visits persecution of Jews

  Gertler, Mark depicted in Crome Yellow kept awake by AH Maria offers to sit for

  Gesualdo, Carlo

  Gide, André

  Gielgud, John

  Gielgud, Lewis amateur acting attempt at film script collaboration death friendship with AH Huxleys visit in Paris joint editor of Doddite

  Gielgud, Mimi

  ‘Gioconda Smile, The’ (short story) film (A Woman’s Vengeance) French version stage version

  Gish, Lillian

  Glasgow University

  Godalming, Surrey see also Laleham; Prior’s Field

  Goddard, Paulette

  Godel, Dr and Mme Paul

  Godel, Robert

  Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

  Gollancz, Victor

  Gorer, Geoffrey

  Gorman, Herbert

  Gosse, Edmund

  Gourmont, Remy de

  Goya y Lucientes, Francisco de

  Grand Canyon

  Grande Chartreuse, monastery of

  Grant, Elspeth, see Huxley, Elspeth

  Graves, Robert

  Greco, El

  Green, Henry

  Green, Russell

  Greene, Graham

  Greenwood, Harold

  Greenwood, Jill (second cousin)

  Grenoble, France

  Greville, Fulke

  Grey Eminence (biography, 1941) description of loss of parent sales themes

  Gstaad, Switzerland

  Guardian, Manchester

  Guatemala

  Guilford, Connecticut

  Guillemard family

  Gunn, Thorn

  Haldane, J.B.S.

  Haldane, Professor and Mrs John Scott

  Haldane, Naomi, see Mitchison, Naomi

  Haldane, Richard, Lord

  Halévy, Daniel

  Halsberg, Helen

  Halsey, Dorris

  Halsey, Reece

  Hamilton, Hamish

  Hamilton, Robert

  Hamnett, Nina

  Hampstead, London: Huxleys’ flat in Lawrence’s house in Leonard Huxley’s house in

  ‘Happily Ever After’ (short story)

  ‘Happy Families’ (play)

  Happy Valley School

  Hardy, Thomas

  Harman, Lord Justice

  Harper, Allanah

  Harper’s (publisher)

  Harper’s Magazine

  Harriman, Job

  Harrison, Austin

  Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Austin

  Hatry, Clarence

  Hauser, Frank

  Hawaii

  Hay diet

  Hayes, Helen

  Haynes, E.S.P.

  Hays Office

  Heal’s, London

  Hear the Lions Roar (Stokes)

  Heard, Gerald achievements and character on AH’s character AH’s first meeting with AH’s involvement with criticised AH’s portrait of and AH’s remarriage on AH’s voice on AH’s wish to be a painter article on flying saucers bust of early visit to USA with AH homosexuality idea for biography of Père Joseph interest in parapsychology lecture tour on pacifism and LSD and Maria’s death and mescalin and mystical philosophies and Peace Pledge Union pessimism over world situation possible depiction in AH’s novels radio broadcasts with AH recommends breathing exercises and Trabuco community

  Hearst, William Randolph

  Hearst Essays

  Heaven and Hell (study of visionary experience, 1956)

  Henderson, Alexander

  Herlitschka, Herbert

  Hermann, Eva

  Hermitage, Reigate

  Herodotus

  Herz, Ida

  Heseltine, Philip

  Hewlett, Maurice

  Hibbert Journal

  Hidden Persuaders, The

  Hiles, Barbara

  Hill, M.H.

  Hillside School

  Hinduism

  ‘History of Tension, The’ (lecture)

  Hitler, Adolf

  Hobhouse family

  Hodson, James Lansdale

  Hofmann, Albert

  Hollywood see also Los Angeles

  ‘Home-Sickness – From the Town’ (poem)

  homosexuality

  Hopkins, Gerard Manley

  Horizon (magazine)

  Houellebecq, Michel

  House and Garden (magazine)

  House Committee on Un-American Activities

  House of Commons

  Houseman, John

  Howde, Ellen, see Huxley, Ellen

  Hubbard, L. Ron

  Hubble, Edwin death

  Hubble, Grace on AH on Amalfi Drive house on Edith Sitwell journals

  Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death

  Human Situation, The (lecture series)

  humanism

  Huntington Library

  Hutchins, Robert

  Hutchinson, Mary; on AH’s appearance AH’s early friendship with AH’s letters to beginning of AH’s affair with bisexuality and Clive Bell end of AH’s affair with on Maria’s appearance Maria’s letters to Maria’s post-war attitude to on Nancy Cunard receives wartime hamper from Huxleys relationship with Huxleys and revival of AH’s play and Virginia Woolf as writer

  Hutchinson, St John (Jack)

  Huxley, Aldous Leonard (1894–1963)

  CHARACTERISTICS AND INTERESTS appearance attracted to free-spirited women as ‘cerebrotonic’ 2–3; charitable nature cynic or idealist? description of his own character desire for knowledge dislike of England dislike of lecturing dislike of socialising drawn to dominant personalities? enthusiasm for recordings ethical high-mindedness fear of relationships fears and anxiety gentleness good at language
s good memory good with servants goodness impracticality insomnia intellect interest in art interest in astronomy interest in cinema interest in facts interest in music interest in science literary artist or thinker? love of Mediterranean love of music hall love of painting love of poetry love of Rome love of Russian ballet love of travelling love of walking loyalty to publishers modesty as moralist motto open mind poor eyesight (see also Bates method) poor health as public speaker reading habits and preferences seen as cold and high-brow self-criticism sexuality sociability stylish dresser tributes to Virginia Woolf’s descriptions of voice

  LIFE: sources birth and background early childhood relationship with father relationship with mother nickname early education amateur acting experiences attends Eton College and mother’s death early career ambitions member of OTC contracts keratitis punctata which nearly blinds him learns Braille learns to play piano visits Germany and learns German has private tutors attends Balliol College relationship with stepmother goes skiing visits France and learns French and brother’s suicide sexual initiation relationship with Jelly D’Aranyi launches Palatine Review visits Scotland and First World War early visits to Garsington friendship with Lawrence rejected by army teaching post at Repton wins Stanhope Prize gains First degree meets Maria and proposes relationship with Dorothy Carrington difficulties of pursuing writing career prolonged separation from Maria takes up residence and works at Garsington works as book reviewer social life in London works at Air Board teaching post at Eton later visits to Garsington involved in launch of Eton Political Society defends Maria to family takes job with The Athenaeum visits and marries Maria in Belgium relationship with Nys family success of marriage affairs and openness of marriage sees Cirque Medrano in Paris wish to write more seriously birth of Matthew work at Chelsea Book Club faints at speaking engagement separation from family exhaustion through overwork joins family in Italy visits Rome returns to England rift with Ottoline over Crome Yellow married life in Westbourne Terrace relationship with Nancy Cunard relationship with Mary Hutchinson, see Hutchinson, Mary; moves to Princes Gardens moves to Italy visits to Forte dei Marmi pessimism in 1920s homes and life in Florence return visits to London and social life there first car motoring holidays in Europe considers lecturing reads Encyclopaedia Britannica trip to India and Asia trip to USA radio broadcasts Collier’s portrait visits Cortina d’Ampezzo homes and life in Forte dei Marmi later visits to Florence visits Switzerland visits Paris home and life in Suresnes and Lawrence’s illness and death marital problems buys Bugatti visits Spain home and life in Sanary-sur-Mer relationship with Cyril Connolly visits working-class areas of England Stokes’s interview with gives Huxley Lecture and deaths of Strachey and Carrington visits Cannes meets king and queen of Belgium revisits Forte trip to the Americas father’s death concern with diet state of mind at age of becomes involved with pacifist movement increasing interest in personal psychological development residence at The Albany, London pessimism about the future (1930s) insomnia and stay in French Alps investigated by FBI attends BUF rally personal crisis and recovery increasing interest in spirituality and mysticism Alexander technique improves health finances interest in yoga and meditation increasingly drawn to scientists and academic experts leaves Sanary and journeys to USA (intended as short-term visit) motoring tours in USA fame in New York visits Frieda Lawrence’s ranch lecture tour with Heard on pacifism radio interviews settles in Los Angeles and develops social life Bates method apparently improves eyesight birthday parties and Second World War decides to stay in USA moves to desert home of Llano del Rio visits Trabuco community involvement with Heard criticised skin allergy at Llano leads to decision to leave relationship with Matthew more positive outlook learns to drive moves to Wrightwood campaigns for Roosevelt post-war pessimism new-found serenity and wisdom visits New York accused of escapism return trips to Europe return visits to London return visits to Sanary tries Erlanger’s eye treatment contracts bronchitis and recuperates in Palm Desert moves to North King’s Road reaction to 1984, interest in dianetics concern to recover lost childhood memories interest in parapsychology Hollywood lifestyle bouts of ‘flu and bronchitis bring on new eye problems lectures at Happy Valley School interest in hypnosis declines invitation to India birth of grandson holiday in Arizona tries further alternative therapies documentary films meets Osmond and experiments with mescalin applies for American citizenship trip to Middle East and Maria’s illness 60th birthday lectures and conferences and Maria’s death belief in Maria’s spirit experiments with LSD marries Laura moves to Deronda Drive television interviews rejects request to preach pessimism and optimism gloomy predictions for future and anti-Bates article interviews visits Brazil love for Laura and Matthew’s marriage breakdown receives award develops cancer honorary degree visiting professorship at MIT visits Hawaii house and personal records destroyed by fire and Mulholland Highway house trip to India at ease with public appearances made Companion of Literature final illness and death

 

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