At this time she began to meet people connected with the modernist movement, like Carrington
and Mark Gertler
. She met and sat for the sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
, and she also met the painter...
Friends, Associates
Dorothy Brett
Brett moved in various distinct social circles. Augustus John
was an admired acquaintance. Virginia Woolf
, a friend, nevertheless commented in 1921 on Brett being one of the entourage of Lady Ottoline Morrell
, and...
Leisure and Society
Dora Carrington
Mark Gertler
's painting of her, Girl in a Blue Jersey, 1912, makes her severe rather than charming.
Birne, Eleanor. “At Dulwich Picture Gallery”. London Review of Books, Vol.
35
, No. 17, 12 Sept. 2013, p. 37.
Occupation
Lady Ottoline Morrell
In 1910 the committee was expanded and renamed the Contemporary Art Society. Its members then included the original four founders, plus Clive Bell
and Ottoline's brother Henry Bentinck
. 44 Bedford Square functioned as the...
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...
Textual Production
Lady Ottoline Morrell
LOM
began work on her memoirs in 1919, and returned to them more seriously in 1925.
Seymour, Miranda. Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1992.
This book is highly readable: its fast-paced, witty narrative conducted in short sentences with few dates and even less of explanation or embroidery. NH
is positively off-hand about such important topics as her early relations...