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...
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.