Evidence: | 'Today I bought and read Aldous Huxley's essay Vulgarity in Literature. It's a surprisingly powerful thing, one of those treats in reading, of which our modern authors never afford me more than one a year. But much of the lighter pleasure it gave me was due to my having met him last week at your house & all the time he seemed to be saying it inside your amber drawing-room; ( where by the way I usually feel like a fly in amber). so I think I must thank you for what a great pleasure my last visit has brought me.' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | 1 Apr 1931 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: London specific address: 19 Stourcliffe Street W1 |
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Reader: | Walter D'Arcy Cresswell |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 22 Jan 1896 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Poet |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | New Zealand |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Aldous Huxley |
Title: | Vulgarity in Literature |
Genre: | Essays / Criticism |
Form of Text: | Print: Pamphlet |
Publication details: | 1930 |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 24691 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Walter D'Arcy Cresswell | |
Editor: | Helen Shaw | |
Title: | Dear Lady Ginger an exchange of letters between Lady Ottoline Morrell and D'Arcy Cresswell together with Ottoline's Morrell's essay on Katherine Mansfield | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1984 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 23 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Walter D'Arcy Cresswell, Helen Shaw (ed.), Dear Lady Ginger an exchange of letters between Lady Ottoline Morrell and D'Arcy Cresswell together with Ottoline's Morrell's essay on Katherine Mansfield (London , 1984), p. 23, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=24691, accessed: 25 April 2024 |
This is an extract from a letter to Ottoline Morrell with whom D'Arcy Cresswell maintained a correspondence from 1930 until her death in April 1938. The occasion of meeting Huxley that D'Arcy Cresswell refers to would have doubtless been at one of her 'Thursdays' at 10 Gower Street to which she invited writers, artists and philosophers; acting as hostess and patron, encouraging them to meet and build relationships to further their talents. A young New Zealand poet, Cresswell had been lionized by the literary world following the 1930 publication of an autobiographical prose work 'The Poet's Progress'. As a notable influence on both Cresswell and Ottoline Morrell, Aldous Huxley was to continue to be a subject of letters between the two. |
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