Lady Ottoline Morrell

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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.
  • BirthName: Lady
    LOM 's title came to her by special favour of Queen Victoria (requested by Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli ) when her half-brother became Duke of Portland.
    Darroch, Sandra Jobson. Ottoline: The Life of Lady Ottoline Morrell. Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, 1975.
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    Ottoline Violet Anne Bentinck
    This is also given as Cavendish-Bentinck.

  • Married: Morrell
  • Titled:
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.

Milestones

16 June 1873

Ottoline Bentinck (later LOM ) was born in London.
Darroch, Sandra Jobson. Ottoline: The Life of Lady Ottoline Morrell. Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, 1975.
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21 April 1938

LOM died at Tunbridge Wells, Kent; the official cause was given as heart failure.
Seymour, Miranda. Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1992.
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1963

The first volume of Ottoline: The Early Memoirs of Lady Ottoline Morrell, appeared posthumously in print. The second, Ottoline at Garsington: Memoirs of Lady Ottoline Morrell, 1915-1918, followed in 1974.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Biography

Birth and Family

16 June 1873

Ottoline Bentinck (later LOM ) was born in London.
Darroch, Sandra Jobson. Ottoline: The Life of Lady Ottoline Morrell. Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, 1975.
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