A. Love

Aldous Huxley and his wives

            Aldous Huxley got married twice: in 1919 with Maria Nys and in 1956 with Laura Archera. 

 In 1915, he joined the group of Lady Ottoline Morrell in her manor at Garsington and met a lot of artists like Lytton Strachey, Vanessa and Clive Bell Duncan Grant, Bertrand Russell… But also his future wife Mary Nys ( the second woman to the left). In 1919, they married and one year later they got a son called Matthew.

All the family would travel and visit India and the United States. Moreover, during the twenties, they lived in Italy and also went to France in the area of Sanary. Then they left for Hollywood to live a new life. In fact Aldous was a bit tired of the Old Europe.  Afterwards, they set up in Southern California and a little bit in Toas, New Mexico. In 1955, Maria got breast cancer. To relieve pain from her, Aldous used the hypnosis in order to remind his wife of her happier memories. However, this help was inadequate and she died the same year .

In 1956, Aldous Huxley got married to Laura Archera. Aldous and Maria had met her in 1949. Unfortunately, Aldous and his second wife wouldn’t spend long years together even if they had fun exploring the real world and the drugs’ one. Indeed he learnt that he was suffering from a laryngeal cancer in 1960. Seven years after their wedding, as he was on his deathbed and couldn't speak, he wrote to his wife to make him an intramuscular injection of 100µg of LSD. A few hours later, he passed away. Laura joined him when she was 96 years old.

( Huxley and Laura Archera )