Miranda Seymour

Standard Name: Seymour, Miranda

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Fictionalization Lady Ottoline Morrell
LOM inspired a number of fictional creations by her associates. D. H. Lawrence drew a hostile portrait of her as Hermione Roddice in Women in Love (1920). She reappears as Priscilla Wimbush in Aldous Huxley
Fictionalization Laura Riding
Miranda Seymour (who has published a life of Graves and a novel based on an incident in his life and Riding's) does not believe this story of indebtedness,
Seymour, Miranda. “The Hand from the Grave”. Lives for Sale: Biographers’ Tales, edited by Mark Bostridge, Continuum, 2004, pp. 191-5.
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and nor does Riding's biographer Friedmann...
Literary responses Laura Riding
Critic Jerome McGann asserts that LR , while making no claim to transcendent poetic power, makes poetry out of her own power to rise above her subject. In this he associates her with Felicia Hemans
Literary responses Harriet Beecher Stowe
Recent books by Julia Markus and by Miranda Seymour have undertaken to set the reckoning straight between Lady Byron and her husband, with judgements on HBS along the way.
Literary responses Mary Shelley
When theoretical critic Barbara Johnson composed an essay on MS in 1980 she was choosing, for a symposium on Jacques Derrida , a relatively unknown topic—yet for the rest of her career she found she...
Reception Augusta Ada Byron
AAB has given her name to the Ada Initiative , a small organization supporting women in open technology and culture (http://adainitiative.org/). A conference on her achievements and legacies was held at the Stevens Institute of Technology
Residence Lady Ottoline Morrell
Evocations of Garsington Manor appear in various works of fiction by her contemporaries. In 1976 the critic Carolyn Heilbrun edited a collection of photographs taken by Lady Ottoline at her home.
Morrell, Lady Ottoline, and Lord David Cecil. Lady Ottoline’s Album. Editor Heilbrun, Carolyn, Alfred A. Knopf, 1976.
prelims
A biographer, Miranda Seymour
Textual Production Lady Ottoline Morrell
She was a prolific writer of letters: with Bertrand Russell alone, she exchanged more than four thousand.
Seymour, Miranda. Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1992.
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She also kept journals, the function of which evolved over the course of her life. Biographer Miranda Seymour

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Texts

Seymour, Miranda. Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1992.
Seymour, Miranda. Robert Graves: Life on the Edge. Henry Holt, 1995.
Seymour, Miranda. “The Hand from the Grave”. Lives for Sale: Biographers’ Tales, edited by Mark Bostridge, Continuum, 2004, pp. 191-5.