The Oxford Companion to English Literature | 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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