Huxley, Aldous Leonard
Huxley, Aldous Leonard ( 1894 – 1963 ),grandson of T. H. Huxley and brother of Julian Huxley ; his mother died when he was 14, and when he was 16 at Eton he developed serious eye trouble which made him nearly blind and prevented any possibility of a scientific career, though he recovered sufficiently to read English at Balliol College, Oxford. During the war he met Lady O. Morrell and visited Garsington frequently; she and other literary figures that he met there were to appear, not always to their own satisfaction, in his early satirical novels. By 1919 , when he began to write for Murry in the Athenaeum , he had already published three volumes of verse; a volume of stories, Limbo ( 1920 ), was followed by Crome Yellow ( 1921 ), a country-house satire which earned him a reputation for precocious brilliance and cynicism, and much offended Lady Ottoline. During the 1920s and 1930s...
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