Mother Julian

At an Anglican convent in Cornwall run by the Little Sisters of the Poor , Lady Ottoline Bentinck (later Morrell) met Mother Julian , one of her early mentors.

The boy, Hugh , who seemed healthy at birth, died of a brain haemorrhage three days later. The girl was christened Julian , after Ottoline's spiritual mentor, Mother Julian . Both Ottoline and Philip were...

The novel is concerned with a widowed scientist considering whether scientific and religious doctrines are inherently incompatible. This narrative is a fictionalized version of Russell's struggle between mystical, spiritual beliefs characterictic of Morrell, and the...