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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