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.
Sepia-toned photograph of Lady Ottoline Morrell, shown from the shoulders up. She is wearing a dark velvet dress with a layer of lace at the top and arms made of semi-sheer ribbed material. Her hair is jaw length, dark, and curly, and she is wearing pearl earrings and necklaces.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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 Production Dora Carrington
Carrington also created other personal writings meant for both private and public consumption. In 1916, she planned to coordinate The Garsington Chronicle, which she imagined would as appear[ing] twice a year / A chronicle...
Textual Production Aldous Huxley
AH 's first novel, Crome Yellow, appeared: a country-house satire which greatly offended Ottoline Morrell , whom he had often visited at Garsington.
Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press.
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Drabble, Margaret, and Jenny Stringer, editors. The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press.
278
Watt, Donald, editor. Aldous Huxley: The Critical Heritage. Routledge and Kegan Paul.
58
Textual Production Dorothy Brett
From about a month after Katherine Mansfield died until the end of the year (with a kind of postscript before leaving for New Mexico), DB kept a surviving diary in a volume given her by...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Virginia Woolf
This work is not so much a diary as a working notebook: its seven sketches take events or issues from VW ' life as grist to (in Doris Lessing 's words) five-finger exercises for future...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elaine Feinstein
Feinstein follows Lawrence from his early aspiration to be a spokesman for women to his later mounting rage against women's desires to use their minds and express their individuality.
Feinstein, Elaine. Lawrence’s Women. HarperCollins.
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Regarding it as impossible to...
Travel Constance Holme
The year after her marriage, CH with her husband visited Lady Ottoline Morrell and her husband at Garsington Manor outside Oxford. Though Lady Ottoline was sister to CH 's husband's employer, it seems that...

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