Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Listing for Author: A Huxley

 

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Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to...Chester Armstrong Thomas Henry HuxleyPrint: Book
1900-1945'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to...Chester Armstrong Aldous HuxleyBrave New WorldPrint: Book
1850-1899'The [1890s] dockers' leader Ben Tillett went hungry in order to buy books ... [and] thereby struggled through the lit...Ben Tillett Thomas Huxley[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'[Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland was] an omnivorous reader -- "she could begin the day with reports on technical edu...Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland Thomas HuxleyLifePrint: Unknown
1900-1945'after tea [W.J. Brown] would enjoy "five glorious hours of freedom" reading Darwin, Huxley and Tennyson's "In Memoria...William John Brown Thomas Henry Huxley[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'After a miserable Catholic school education...periodic unemployment allowed [Joseph Toole] to study in the Manchester...Joseph Toole Thomas Henry Huxley[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945[Lehmann and her first husband, Leslie Runcimann] 'were great readers, particularly of modern novelists such as Huxley...Rosamond Lehmann Aldous HuxleyPrint: Book
1900-1945[Lehmann and her first husband, Leslie Runcimann] 'were great readers, particularly of modern novelists such as Huxley...Leslie Runcimann Aldous HuxleyPrint: Book
1900-1945'The fresh-sounding work of the war generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him ...Lawrence Durrell Aldous Huxley[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'I am forming my opinions mainly from what I read in books on economies, politics, history, etc. I read the daily pape...A Huxley[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Ends and Means contains much that is good and new. Also his essays are quite attractive, his novels are utter tripe.'Aldous HuxleyEnds and MeansPrint: Book
1900-1945'I like his Brave New World but I do not think any of his other books are much good, in fact they bore me profoundly.'Aldous HuxleyBrave new worldPrint: Book
1900-1945'A master's debate at school set me thinking, and I decided for myself as far as I could at that age. At 16 I joined t...Aldous HuxleyEncyclopaedia of pacifismPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 25 July 1926: 'Mrs Hardy said to me, do you know Aldous Huxley? [...] They had been reading his book, which she...Thomas and Florence HardyAldous HuxleyTwo or Three GracesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. "Thanks to my f...Sydney Larkin Aldous Huxley[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Today I bought and read Aldous Huxley's essay Vulgarity in Literature. It's a surprisingly powerful thing, one of tho...Walter D'Arcy Cresswell Aldous HuxleyVulgarity in Literature
1900-1945I’ll tell you what I think of ‘Golgotha’. I think it is a prodigious cataract of eloquence, managed with astoni...Arnold Bennett Aldous HuxleyOn the MarginPrint: Book
1900-1945'Had Aldous Huxley been as richly endowed with imagination as with intellectual penetration, his "Brave New World" mig...William Soutar Aldous HuxleyBrave New WorldPrint: Book
1900-1945

February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have been reading”

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Howard L. Sikes Julian HuxleyAfrica ViewPrint: Book

 

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