HUXLEY AND ORWELL’S PAST
1917 BEFORE THE DYSTOPIAN FUTURES
Fifteen years before publishing his dystopian magnum opus Brave New World, former student Aldous Huxley (pictured) was hired as Eton College’s new French tutor. In a bizarre coincidence (or was it serendipity?), he spent that year teaching Eric Blair, who would achieve great fame with another bleak futuristic novel, 1984, under the name George Orwell.