Lady Ottoline Morrell
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Standard Name: Morrell, Lady Ottoline
Birth Name: Ottoline Violet Anne Bentinck
Titled: Lady Ottoline Anne Violet Bentinck
Married Name: Lady Ottoline Anne Violet Morrell
LOM
is best known as an early twentieth-century literary hostess who appears frequently in the memoirs, biographies, and fictions written by her guests. She aspired to be a writer herself, and she produced journals, letters, and memoirs, as well as collaborating with Bertrand Russell
on fiction and non-fiction.
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Dora Carrington | Here, Morrell
and another guest, writer Aldous Huxley
(who were both friends of and loyal to Carrington's admirer Mark Gertler
), confronted Carrington about her reluctance to give up her virginity. She described the episode... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Margaret Sackville | The friendship between the widowed James Ramsay MacDonald
, Labour politician, and LMS
began in 1912 and proved important and long-lasting. She was said to have declined a proposal of marriage from him. The writer... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Constance Holme | He was thirteen years older than she was. He too had succeeded his father in his position, and his employer was Lord Henry Bentinck
, brother of Lady Ottoline Morrell
. The marriage was childless... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Aldous Huxley | They met while she, a well-connected Belgian, boarded at Garsington (the home of Member of Parliament Philip Morrell
and his wife Ottoline Morrell
, a centre for conscientious objectors, where AH
spent a good deal... |
Friends, Associates | Virginia Woolf | Later, however, Bloomsbury was attacked as an arrogant, self-regarding, immoral, upper-class clique. D. H. Lawrence
said Keynes and his friends were black beetles, and in Women in Love he attacked the group's aesthetic in... |
Friends, Associates | Katherine Mansfield | KM
spent a weekend visiting Lady Ottoline Morrell
at Garsington; this was the first in a string of regular visits. Alpers, Antony. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Oxford University Press, 1982. 409-10 |
Friends, Associates | Katherine Mansfield | Garsington Manor is a Jacobean manor house near Oxford. It was furnished in a romantic if somewhat whimsical style. Boddy, Gillian. Katherine Mansfield: The Woman and the Writer. Penguin Books Australia, 1988. 55 |
Friends, Associates | E. H. Young | EHY
corresponded with Lady Ottoline Morrell
during the 1930s, and sent her copies of her novels. Mezei, Kathy, and Chiara Briganti. “’She must be a very good novelist’: Rereading E. H. Young (1880-1949)”. English Studies in Canada, No. 3, pp. 303 - 31. 325n1 |
Friends, Associates | Viola Meynell | |
Friends, Associates | Ruth Pitter | RP
knew T. S. Eliot
well enough to enjoy a courtly encounter with him at a bus stop, but she felt his great innovations had not necessarily been a good thing for English poetry, and... |
Friends, Associates | Hope Mirrlees | Before her death, Ottoline Morrell
named writer HM
as one of her literary executors; the two had been friends for some twenty years. Woolf, Virginia. The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Bell, Anne Olivier and Andrew McNeillieEditors , Hogarth Press, 1984. 5: 140 |
Friends, Associates | Rose Allatini | Virginia Woolf
, who gives no indication of having met RA
herself, recorded satirically how in February 1919, after the appearace and prosecution of Despised and Rejected, Lady Ottoline Morrellswooped down upon Allatini... |
Friends, Associates | Henry Green | HG
was one of those whom Lady Ottoline Morrell
entertained at her London salon and whose careers she nurtured with encouragement and influence. Explicitly speaking for others as well as himself, he said she took... |
Friends, Associates | Dora Russell | During this period, the Russells' friends and associates included Sybil Thorndike
and Lewis Casson
, Ottoline Morrell
, T. S. Eliot
, W. B. Yeats
, G. B.
and Charlotte Shaw
, Desmond MacCarthy
... |
Friends, Associates | Hope Mirrlees | After her return from Paris, HM
was occupied with various friendships and interests. By now she could count Vivien
and T. S. Eliot
, Lytton Strachey
, Molly
and Desmond MacCarthy
, Duncan Grant
,... |
Timeline
From early summer 1915
Garsington Manor, near Oxford, the home of Lady Ottoline
and Philip Morrell
, became a centre for many pacifists, conscientious objectors, and non-pacifist critics of the war.