Huxley and orwell5/11/2023 The family moved to Italy in 1920 and lived most of the next several decades there while traveling widely. From 1919 to 1921, he edited a publication called Athenaeum. His near-blindness disqualified him from service in World War I. Barely able to read, he nevertheless graduated from Oxford in 1916, the same year his first book appeared. Huxley hoped to become a scientist like his grandfather, but his dreams were shattered when a medical condition robbed him of most of his sight while he was a student at Eton. His grandfather was a famous biologist and proponent of Darwin, and his father was a respected biographer. One of his pupils will be Eric Blair, who will later use the pen name George Orwell. On this day in 1917, 23-year-old Aldous Huxley, future author of Brave New World is hired as a schoolmaster at Eton.
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