VIEWS AND THEMES: accuracy of predictions actors advertising anarchism Anglo-Saxon literature Apollo moon-shot art arms race artistic innovation avant-garde beauty-truth as mystical entity book reviewing capitalism class war coffee plantations consumer culture contemporary literature contemporary poets current affairs decentralization democracy ecology education eighteenth-century poets emotion ends and means doctrine eternal youth ethics eugenics family fascism fiction Florence freedom French poets friendship generation war H.G. Wells ‘have a good time’ mentality Hinduism history Hollywood homosexuality India influence of Arnold on influence of Thomas Huxley on intellectuals Jews language in international relations liberal humanism vs human nature limitations of words linguistics literature literature teaching machinery and production lines man-made vs cosmic problems Marxism mass culture media mediaeval literature mental deficiency middle-class affectation modern art nature of writing non-attachment old age parliament perfected humanity concept personal development poetry politics post-atomic novel post-1945 situation primitivism and civilization progress propaganda proportional representation psychology psychology of hate racial purity concept realism relationship of mind and body relationships religion sado-masochism search for light self-knowledge sex Sheldon’s theory of types snobbery sociology stupidity of the majority superstition a ‘synthesis for human beings’ tabloid journalists television thinking thirties poets ‘two cultures’ debate UFOs USA value of life Victorian age violence women working-class world as illusion xenophobia
WRITING: adaptation of Frances Sheridan’s play advertising jingles articles for Condé Nast Athenaeum articles attitude to his own poetry bibliography of work published book reviews children’s stories controversies and attempts to suppress his work contracts with Chatto & Windus dislike of journalism drama reviews early efforts early poetry film scripts first essay collection first novel lost first poetry collection published first short story collection Harper’s Magazine, articles Hearst essays on his own abilities as a novelist last poetry letter writing loses interest in books once written music reviews Nash’s Pall Mall Magazine articles not good at working-class characters pacifist pamphlets paper on visionary experience preference for ideas and essays over story-telling quality of American novels disputed quest for new literary forms quest to make money from staging plays sales and royalties satirical aspect success in USA travel writing unfinished projects unfulfilled ideas for books see also specific works
Huxley, Ellen (née Howde, Matthew’s first wife)
Huxley, Elspeth (née Grant, Gervas’s wife)
Huxley, Francis (nephew)
Huxley, Gervas (cousin): on AH’s isolation on AH’s sexual initiation childhood and schooldays with AH continued friendship with AH on death of AH’s mother and First World War on Leonard Huxley marriage at Oxford with AH later meetings with AH
Huxley, Henry (uncle)
Huxley, Judith (née Bordage, Matthew’s second wife)
Huxley, Julia (née Arnold, mother) death depicted in Antic Hay opens school
Huxley, Julian (brother) affairs on AH as child and AH’s career AH’s letters to AH’s relationship with and brother’s suicide clarity of writing collaboration on documentary film depicted in film script education and eugenics on his father holiday in Switzerland with AH and Jelly D’Aranyi marriage melancholic nature opinion of Maria and pressure of living up to grandfather’s success in USA wins Newdigate prize
Huxley, Juliette (née Baillot, Julian’s wife) on AH’s work becomes governess at Garsington and meets Huxleys engagement and marriage holiday in Switzerland with Huxleys on Julian and Julian’s affairs
Huxley, Laura Archera (second wife) meets Huxleys in Rome psychotherapy work Maria’s approval of and mescalin visits AH after Maria’s death marries AH on AH’s tiredness attends AH’s play visits Brazil and Europe visits Hawaii and destruction of home by fire and AH’s illness in Gstaad and Mulholland Highway house in India and LSD and AH’s death tribute to AH
Huxley, Leonard (father) and AH’s marriage background and first marriage biography of his father, Thomas character and AH’s relationship with death depicted in AH’s novels as editor of Cornhill Magazine moves to London second marriage
Huxley, Margaret (sister)
Huxley, Maria (nee Nys, first wife): on AH on AH’s writing appearance attitude to money bisexuality dress sense fears good with servants love of travelling unconventiality background and childhood nicknames visits to Garsington and relationship with Ottoline suicide attempt dislike of Garsington and Bloomsbury attends Newnham College, then absconds to London meets AH AH’s proposal to move to Florence and separation from AH visit to Forte dei Marmi and relationship with Costanza letters to Ottoline Christmas in Naples decision to marry AH concern for AH’s career wedding success of marriage and devotion to AH birth of son holidays in Italy career possibilities early married life in London openness of marriage relationship with Mary Hutchinson and AH’s affair with Nancy Cunard decision to live in Italy homes and life in Florence and driving trip to Asia anxiety over Matthew’s illness trip to USA stay in Cortina love of skiing and death of grandfather homes and life in Forte dei Marmi as AH’s secretary horror over child’s death in Point Counter Point later holidays in Florence plans to build house holiday in Switzerland types Lady Chatterley’s Lover manuscript home and life in Suresnes possible marital problems later holidays in Forte poses for AH and Lawrence’s death home and life in Sanary-sur-Mer relationship with Connollys meets king and queen of Belgium trip to Americas ill-health tour of Spain dislikes AH’s paintings holiday in Rome on AH’s decision to exercise and Alexander technique on AH’s “année horrible” and his recovery criticised by Ottoline sadness at leaving Sanary reluctance to go to USA on beauty of New York loss of weight dislike of housework homes and life in Los Angeles on Gary Cooper left behind during AH’s lecture tour liking for Salka Viertel and decision to stay in USA Isherwood on love of desert and home in Llano del Rio financial worries pets improved health and move to Wrightwood longing for Europe on former London friends tiredness visit to New York dislike of California reads Ape and Essence to AH trips to Europe and move to North King’s Road return visit to Sanary cancer holiday in Arizona and hypnosis initial suspicion of Osmond The Doors of Perception dedicated to applies for American citizenship visits Middle East visits Florence and receives treatment from Laura Archera possibility that she designated her own successor x-ray treatments and lumbago final illness and death ashes
Huxley, Marjorie (cousin)
Huxley, Mark Trevenen (grandson)
Huxley, Matthew (son) character birth and childhood not baptised governesses and nannies education parents’ trip abroad and lung problems improvement in health liked by Lawrence lives with father in London DIY skills motoring holiday in USA love of America helps at Llano del Rio joins US Army Medical Corps ill-health work at Warner Brothers union activities lives with partner at Wrightwood marriage birth of son applies for US citizenship and Maria’s illness and death AH visits and father’s remarriage failure of marriage and AH’s illness second marriage on Maria’s elegance Maria’s letters to on Maria’s sexuality
Huxley, Rosalind (stepmother)
Huxley, Sophy (aunt)
Huxley, Thomas Henry (grandfather) AH’s admiration for AH’s lecture on AH’s similar talents AH’s tribute to influence on Huxleys Leonard’s biography of melancholic nature reflected in Huxley brothers statue
Huxley, Trevenen (brother) depicted in Eyeless in Gaza suicide
Huxley and Film (Clark)
Huxley in Hollywood (Dunaway)
Huxley Memorial Lecture (1932)
‘Hyperion to a Satyr’ (essay)
hypnotism
I Take This City (Roberts)
ICI
Idaho State College
‘Idea of Equality, The’ (essay)
Imagism
India
India Office
Institute for Modern Art, Washington
Institute for Tr
opical Medicine
Intellectuals and the Masses, The (Carey)
International Authors Congress for the Defence of Culture
International Writer’s Congress
‘Is Cruelty Out of Date’ (broadcast)
Isherwood, Christopher and AH’s illness on AH’s novels on AH’s remarriage asked to read Time Must Have A Stop contribution to Island film scripts friendship with AH on Gerald Heard as guest of Huxleys homosexuality and Llano handyman at Maria’s funeral picnics with Huxleys Prater Violet Spender’s letter to on Swami Prabhavananda
Islam
Island (novel, 1962) AH’s difficulties in writing death of Lakshmi decision on title depiction of bourgeoisie depiction of motherhood and family depiction of sexuality manuscript saved from fire reaction of film companies to reaction of publishers to themes
Isola Bella, Soho
Jacob’s Hands (film script)
Jacques, Mr (teacher)
Jaffe, Elsa
Jamaica
James, ‘Ma’
Jane Eyre (film)
Java
Jazz Singer, The (film)
Jesting Pilate (essay collection)
Jewish exiles
Jigsaw (Bedford)
Joad, C.E.M.
John of the Cross, St
John XXIII, pope
‘Jonah’ (poem)
Jonson, Ben
Joseph, Père, see Grey Eminence
Journal Intime (de Biran)
Joyce, James Ulysses
Jung, Carl
Kafka, Franz
Kahn travelling fellowship
Kangaroo (Lawrence)
Kant, Immanuel
Kauffer, Ted McKnight
Kaufman, George
Kaufmann, J.A.
Kaye, J.A., see Kaufmann, J.A.
Kayser, Professor
Kennedy, Joe
Kennedy, John F.
Kenya
Ker, W.P.
keratitis punctata
Kerouac, Jack
Kermode, Frank
Kester, Max
Keynes, John Maynard
Kiskadden, Bill
Kisdadden, Peggy
Kisling, Moshe and Renée
Kitselman, A.L.
‘Knowledge and Understanding’ (essay)
Knox, Ronald
Korda, Alexander
Korda, Zoltan
Koteliansky, Samuel
Kreuger, Ivar
Krig, Pat
Krishnamurti, Jiddu and Happy Valley School
Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Lawrence)
Laforgue, Jules
Laleham (house), Godalming
Lall, Chaman
Lamson, Peggy
Lansbury, George
La Rochelle, Drieu
Lauryssens, Stan
Law, William
Lawrence, D.H. accomplished at domestic tasks AH’s admiration for AH edits letters of on AH’s character AH’s friendship with AH’s tribute to AH’s views on writing of anger with Ottoline over Maria’s suicide attempt concern for Huxleys’ health death depicted in Point Counter Point depiction of Ottoline Morrell differing attitudes to AH discusses idea for book with AH on Huxleys ill-health influence on Do What You Will on Mary Hutchinson Murry’s account of in Paris scheme for authors’ publishing company similarities to AH suppression of writings of views on AH’s writings
Lawrence, Frieda ranch in New Mexico
Lear, Edward
Leary, Timothy
Leaves from the Tulip Tree (Juliette Huxley)
Leavis, F.R.
LeCron, Leslie
‘Leda’ (poem)
Leda (poetry collection, 1920)
Lee, Vernon
Lefevre, Frederic
Left Review
Lehmann, John
Lehmann, Rosamund
Leigh, Vivien
Leno, Dan
Leonard, Robert Z.
Le Put, Marie
Les Diablerets, Switzerland
Letters of D.H. Lawrence, The (edited by AH)
Lettres Persanes (Montesquieu)
Lewis, Wyndham
Liaisons Dangereuses, Les (Laclos)
Life (magazine)
Life and Letters of Thomas Huxley (Leonard Huxley)
‘Life Theoretic, The’ (poem)
Limbo (short story collection, 1920)
‘Lines’ (poem)
Lion, Leon
Listener, The (magazine)
Literature and Science (essay collection, 1963)
Little Mexican (short story collection, 1924)
Little Rock, Arkansas
Living (Green)
Llano del Rio AH’s allergy to ragweed at Harriman’s experiment Maria’s sadness at leaving
London Council of the Promotion of Public Morality
London Mercury
Loos, Anita AH’s admiration of on AH’s appearance and AH’s idea for biopic of Marie Curie as AH’s interpreter of American mores and Alice in Wonderland project description of LA picnic first meeting with Huxleys friendship with Huxleys on Huxleys’ houses on Laura on Maria persuades AH to accept Pride and Prejudice job and She Stoops to Conquer project wartime activities
Los Angeles Ape and Essence set in Farmer’s Market North King’s Road house Pacific Palisades Player’s Club Rose Dale Memorial Park Town and Country Market World’s Largest Drugstore Yolanda’s see also Hollywood
Los Angeles School of Journalism
LSD
Lucca, Italy
Luhan, Mabel Dodge
Lyceum Theatre, New York
Lydgate, John
MacArthur, Charles
Macaulay, Rose
Macaulay, Thomas Babington
Macintosh, Mr (teacher)
McCarthy, Desmond
McDonagh, J.E.R.
McEvoy (painter)
MacPhail, Dr
Madrid
Malaya
Malinowski, Bronislaw
Mallarmé, Stephane
Malthus, Thomas
Man Within, The (Greene)
Mann, Erika
Mann, Katia
Mann, Thomas
Mansard Gallery, London
Mansfield, Katherine
Maple’s, London
Marx, Harpo
Marx Brothers
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massingham, H.W.
Mauretania, (liner)
Mauriac, François
Max und Moritz (comic characters)
Maya culture
Mazower, Mark
meditation
Meier-Graefe, Julius
Mencken, H.L.: AH’s early correspondence with AH’s meetings with possible depiction in Crome Yellow
Mendl, Charles
Menninger Foundation, Topeka
Menuhin, Yehudi
Meredith, Burgess
Meredith, George
mescalin
Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science (Burtt)
Mexico
MGM
Middlesbrough, England
Middleton, Richard
Mill, James
Miller, Arthur
Miller, Henry
Mills, Dorothy
Milton, John
mines, coal
Mitchison, Dick
Mitchison, Naomi (nee Haldane) on AH’s poor eyesight death of child enjoyment of Those Barren Leaves friendship with AH marriage
Moffitt Hospital, San Francisco
Mojave Desert
‘Mole’ (poem)
Mond, Alfred
Monitor (television programme)
Monkey (Chinese story)
Monro, Harold
Montecatini spa
Montini, Rina
Morand, Paul
Moravia, Alberto
Morgan, Charles
Morgan, Evan, Viscount Tredegar AH’s first meeting with depicted in Crome Yellow dissolute lifestyle
Morning Post
Mo
rrell, Ottoline AH’s liking for character criticises Maria death depiction in Crome Yellow leads to rift depiction in other novels descriptions of AH engineers meeting between AH and Lawrence on inadequacies of AH’s writing and Maria’s suicide attempt relationship with Maria rift with Huxleys healed see also Garsington Manor
Morrell, Philip character friction with Maria pacifism penchant for cutting girls’ hair
Mortal Coils (short story collection, 1922)
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