Lady Ottoline Morrell
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Standard Name: Morrell, Lady Ottoline
Birth Name: Ottoline Violet Anne Bentinck
Titled: Lady Ottoline Anne Violet Bentinck
Married Name: Lady Ottoline Anne Violet Morrell
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.
Connections
Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Vernon Lee | VL
also became friendly with Ottoline Morrell
, Maurice Baring
, and many Italian artists, critics, and aristocrats. Colby, Vineta. Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography. University of Virginia Press. 133-4, 172 |
Friends, Associates | Virginia Woolf | Later, however, Bloomsbury was attacked as an arrogant, self-regarding, immoral, upper-class clique. D. H. Lawrence
said Keynes and his friends were black beetles, and in Women in Love he attacked the group's aesthetic in... |
Friends, Associates | Katherine Mansfield | KM
spent a weekend visiting Lady Ottoline Morrell
at Garsington; this was the first in a string of regular visits. Alpers, Antony. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Oxford University Press. 409-10 |
Friends, Associates | E. H. Young | EHY
corresponded with Lady Ottoline Morrell
during the 1930s, and sent her copies of her novels. Mezei, Kathy, and Chiara Briganti. “’She must be a very good novelist’: Rereading E. H. Young (1880-1949)”. English Studies in Canada, Vol. 27 , No. 3, pp. 303-31. 325n1 |
Friends, Associates | Katherine Mansfield | Garsington Manor is a Jacobean manor house near Oxford. It was furnished in a romantic if somewhat whimsical style. Boddy, Gillian. Katherine Mansfield: The Woman and the Writer. Penguin Books Australia, http://U of A HSS. 55 |
Friends, Associates | Viola Meynell | |
Friends, Associates | Hope Mirrlees | Before her death, Ottoline Morrell
named writer HM
as one of her literary executors; the two had been friends for some twenty years. Woolf, Virginia. The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Editors Bell, Anne Olivier and Andrew McNeillie, Hogarth Press. 5: 140 |
Friends, Associates | Rose Allatini | Virginia Woolf
, who gives no indication of having met RA
herself, recorded satirically how in February 1919, after the appearace and prosecution of Despised and Rejected, Lady Ottoline Morrellswooped down upon Allatini... |
Friends, Associates | Henry Green | HG
was one of those whom Lady Ottoline Morrell
entertained at her London salon and whose careers she nurtured with encouragement and influence. Explicitly speaking for others as well as himself, he said she took... |
Friends, Associates | Ruth Pitter | RP
knew T. S. Eliot
well enough to enjoy a courtly encounter with him at a bus stop, but she felt his great innovations had not necessarily been a good thing for English poetry, and... |
Friends, Associates | Hope Mirrlees | After her return from Paris, HM
was occupied with various friendships and interests. By now she could count Vivien
and T. S. Eliot
, Lytton Strachey
, Molly
and Desmond MacCarthy
, Duncan Grant
,... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth von Arnim | On her return to London, EA
found that her husband's smear campaign had effectively alienated her from her established social set. She responded by cultivating a friendship with a younger man, Alexander Stuart Frere-Reeves |
Friends, Associates | Mary Agnes Hamilton | The day after war was declared, MAH
was taken to meet Vernon Lee
, a writer she much admired, who was then staying at the London home (44 Bedford Square) of Lady Ottoline
and Philip Morrell
. Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape. 73 |
Friends, Associates | Dora Russell | During this period, the Russells' friends and associates included Sybil Thorndike
and Lewis Casson
, Ottoline Morrell
, T. S. Eliot
, W. B. Yeats
, G. B.
and Charlotte Shaw
, Desmond MacCarthy
... |
Friends, Associates | Enid Bagnold | Bagnold's biographer Anne Sebba
writes that try as [EB
] might to belong to the artists' milieu, she could not release her other foot from the smart set. Sebba, Anne. Enid Bagnold: The Authorized Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 148 |
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