Juliette Huxley

Juliette, Lady Huxley ( Marie Juliette Baillot; 6 December 1896 – 28 September 1994) was a Swiss and British sculptor and writer. She provided lifelong support to her husband, British naturalist Sir Julian Huxley.

Biography

Baillot was born in Auvernier, Switzerland, on 6 December 1896 to Alphonse Baillot, a lawyer, and Mélanie Antonia Ortlieb.

Around 1915 she began working as a tutor to the daughter of Lady Ottoline Morrell at Garsington. Sarton went on to have a brief physical relationship with Juliette, which became over time what Sarton later described as a romance and as a true union of souls.

Juliette learned to sculpt from Alan Best, whom she had hired to teach her son when he was immobilised following a bicycle accident, and she later had an apprenticeship with John Skeaping at the Central School.

She became Lady Huxley on the award of a knighthood to her husband in 1958.