The Education of Mr. Huxley
Huxley attended Balliol College at Oxford, where he completed his studies with high honors in English. While at Oxford, Huxley was introduced to Philip Morrell, a member of the British Parliament, and his wife, Lady Ottoline. Because of his family's reputation, Huxley was soon accepted into the Morrell's circle of friends. He began spending time at Garsington, the Morrell's country estate, where he met such influential literary figures as Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, H. G. Wells, and D. H. Lawrence--with whom he would later forge a great friendship. Huxley's visits to the estate provided him with a view of modern life and thought that he could not obtain through academic study. He was fascinated by the fact that Garsington's guests could be both socially unconventional-- often exceedingly ridiculous--and more intellectually stimulating than anyone he had yet encountered.
During his many stays at Garsington, Huxley met a young war refugee from Belgium named Maria Nys. The two fell in love and married, prompting Huxley to move into the professional world. He briefly emulated his father's academic career, taking a teaching position at Eton College. His love of writing, however, soon influenced him to accept an assistant editor position with the periodical Athenaeum.
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