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 | Antonia White | In Chelsea AW
formed a friendship with the painter Eliot Seabrooke
, a large and centred personality Dunn, Jane. Antonia White: A Life. Jonathan Cape. 72 |
Friends, Associates | Dora Carrington | Introduced by Mark Gertler
, DC
became a frequent visitor of Ottoline Morrell
at her Garsington home (which Carrington privately referred to as Shandygaff Hall). Hill, Jane, and Michael Holroyd. The Art of Dora Carrington. Herbert Press. 138 Gerzina, Gretchen. Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932. John Murray. 84 |
Friends, Associates | Virginia Woolf | VW
visited Garsington Manor, home of Lady Ottoline
and Philip Morrell
, for the first time. Woolf, Virginia. The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Editors Bell, Anne Olivier and Andrew McNeillie, Hogarth Press. 1: 77-8 |
Friends, Associates | Dora Carrington | They both visited and shared a room at Ottoline Morrell
's Garsington Manor in September 1916, when, Carrington recalled, Katherine and I wore trousers. It was wonderful being alone in the garden. Hearing the music... |
Friends, Associates | Vernon Lee | VL
also became friendly with Ottoline Morrell
, Maurice Baring
, and many Italian artists, critics, and aristocrats. Colby, Vineta. Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography. University of Virginia Press. 133-4, 172 |
Friends, Associates | Virginia Woolf | Early members of what VW
called Old Bloomsbury (to distinguish the original members of the group from later additions) included Virginia and Vanessa Stephen
, Leonard Woolf
, Clive Bell
, E. M. Forster
,... |
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 | 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... |
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... |
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 | 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 |
Textual Features | Pat Barker | The story begins with the ambitions and emotional entanglements of a small group of Slade School of Art
students (two men, Paul Tarrant and the precocious success Kit Neville, and one strikingly talented woman, Elinor... |
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