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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Friends, Associates | Freya Stark | After her long recovery, FS
continued to enjoy her popularity in London society. Sir Sydney Cockerell
, director of Cambridge
's Fitzwilliam Museum
, became a friend. She was introduced to Virginia Woolf
, Rose Macaulay |
Friends, Associates | Gertrude Stein | |
Friends, Associates | Iris Tree | IT
became acquainted with members of Bloomsbury around the time she attended the Slade School of Art
. Vanessa Bell
, Duncan Grant
, and Roger Fry
all painted portraits of her, and she wore... |
Friends, Associates | Dorothy Brett | |
Friends, Associates | Helen Waddell | Friends from HW
's time at Somerville
included Maude Clarke
, whom she had known as a child and whose Oxford position had been one of the incentives to go there, and archaelogist Helen Lorimer |
Friends, Associates | Aldous Huxley | Those friends of Aldous whom his wife Maria referred to as the brilliant ones, Bedford, Sybille. Aldous Huxley. Knopf; Harper & Row. 105 |
Occupation | Roger Fry | Fry travelled to Paris with Clive Bell, Desmond MacCarthy
, and Lady Ottoline Morrell
to select the paintings. On 6 November 1910, RF
launched the Manet
and the Post-Impressionists exhibition at the Grafton Gallery, which... |
Occupation | Dorothy Brett | After graduating from the Slade School of Art, DB
became a professional artist. Her most famous early exhibition piece was War Widows, painted in 1916, in which a crowd of black-clad pregnant women take... |
politics | Sybille Bedford | The Huxleys and an un-named barrister friend produced a man sympathetic to political refugees and willing to marry her for money: Terry Bedford. The couple met for the first time at the Albany in Piccadilly... |
Reception | D. H. Lawrence | Because of its treatment of lesbianism and other sexual topics, the book was prosecuted under Lord Campbell's Obscene Publications Act, with the aid of the National Purity League
. Lady Ottoline Morrell
persuaded her husband... |
Reception | E. H. Young | The bulk of EHY
's papers remain in the possession of Mr Bill Saunders
. Her correspondence with Lady Ottoline Morrell
is at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
, University of Texas at Austin
. Mezei, Kathy, and Chiara Briganti. “’She must be a very good novelist’: Rereading E. H. Young (1880-1949)”. English Studies in Canada, Vol. 27 , No. 3, pp. 303-31. 325 |
Reception | Doreen Wallace | Lady Ottoline Morrell
arranged a launch party for the two authors and invited them to her home at Garsington, but neither or them accepted her invitation. DW
wrote later that since she did not... |
Residence | Vernon Lee | VL
was staying with Lady Ottoline
and Philip Morrell
at 44 Bedford Square in Bloomsbury when the Great War (later called the First World War) broke out. She stayed in London throughout the war, first... |
Textual Features | D. H. Lawrence | The novel follows the personal and intellectual development of two sisters from The Rainbow: Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen, along with their lovers, family, and friends. It also contains fictionalized portraits of Dora Carrington
(as... |
Textual Features | Mary Agnes Hamilton | She was inspired to write it by a hatred of war, which was encouraged by political activists including such women as Vernon Lee
and Lady Ottoline Morrell
. Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape. 72-4 |
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