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Bertrand Russell
(1872—1970) philosopher, journalist, and political campaigner
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Aldous Huxley
(1894–1963),grandson of T. H. Huxley and brother of Julian Huxley. By 1919, when he began to write for Murry in the Athenaeum, he had already published three volumes of verse; a volume of stories, ...
Apostles
An exclusive intellectual society formed in Cambridge in 1820, for the purpose of friendship and formal discussion. During the 19th‐cent. members included A. Hallam, Tennyson, Milnes, and R. C. ...
Bloomsbury Group
A group of writers, artists, and philosophers living in or associated with Bloomsbury in the early 20th century. Members of the group, which included Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey, Vanessa Bell, ...
Crome Yellow
A novel by A. Huxley, published in 1921. First establishing Huxley's reputation for witty dialogue and cynically funny observation, it has usually been read as a roman-à-clef, satirizing Ottoline ...
D. H. Lawrence
(1885–1930)British novelist and poet.Lawrence was born in the coalmining village of Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, the fourth child of a miner and a schoolteacher. The conflict between his coarse violent ...
E. M. Forster
(1879–1970)British novelist and literary critic. He became a CH in 1953 and was appointed to the OM in 1969.After a childhood pampered by his widowed mother and several adoring aunts, Forster went to ...
Elizabeth von Arnim
(1866–1941),novelist and cousin of K. Mansfield, born in Sydney, Australia. In 1890 she married Count Henning August von Arnim‐Schlagenthin, who appears as ‘the Man of Wrath’ in her best‐known work, ...
G. M. Trevelyan
(1876–1962),historian, son of Sir G. O. Trevelyan, was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he became a member of the Apostles. He was appointed Regius professor of modern history ...
George Orwell
1903–1950)British novelist and essayist.Orwell was born in India, where his father was in the Bengal Civil Service. After leaving Eton (1921), he joined the Imperial Police in Burma for five years. ...
I. A. Richards
(1893–1979),critic and poet, became a fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, in 1929, then in 1931 moved to Harvard, where he devoted many years to the study of linguistics and education. He was the ...
James Joyce
(1882–1941),novelist, born at Rathgar, Dublin, educated at University College, Dublin, where Gogarty was a fellow student. Early influences included Gerhard Hauptmann, Dante, G. Moore, Ibsen, and ...
John Maynard Keynes
(1883–1946)English economist and philosopher. Although primarily known as an economist, Keynes produced one philosophical classic, the Treatise on Probability (1921). This develops the theory of ...
Joseph Conrad
1857–1924)Polish-born British novelist.Conrad's parents were ardent Polish nationalists, and his childhood was darkened by the exile into which they were sent by the tsarist authorities. He was born ...
Lady Ottoline Morrell
(1873–1938),patron of the arts and hostess. From 1908 she entertained a wide circle of political and literary celebrities at her Thursday evening gatherings at 44 Bedford Square, and then at ...
Logan Pearsall Smith
(1865–1946),man of letters, born in Philadelphia, spent most of his life in England. He was a founder of the Society for Pure English. His works include Trivia (1902), More Trivia (1921), and ...
May Sinclair
(Mary Amelia St Clair Sinclair) (1863–1946), novelist, a supporter of women's suffrage. Among the most notable of her 24 novels are The Divine Fire (1904), The Three Sisters (1914, a study in female ...
New Statesman
A weekly journal of politics, art, and letters, originally planned as an organ of the Fabian Society. It was first published in 1913 with Clifford Sharp as editor, J. C. Squire as literary editor, ...
ontology
The branch of metaphysics dealing with the nature of being. Recorded from the early 18th century, the word comes from modern Latin ontologia, from Greek ōn, ont− ‘being’, + the suffix −logy denoting ...
phenomenology
(fin-om-in-ol-ŏji)the study of occurrences forming part of human experiences. Concerned with describing the facts of the immediate situation, rather than speculating about causes, it helps nurses and ...
pluralism
[Th]Diversity in interpretation. Because the world cannot be reduced to a series of simple conceptual categories there will always be a range of approaches, understandings, and interpretations. In ...
