Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
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
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
Bagnold's friends included socialist...
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...
politics
Sybille Bedford
The Huxleys and an un-named barrister friend produced a man sympathetic to political refugees and willing to marry her for money: Terry Bedford. The couple met for the first time at the Albany in Piccadilly...
Friends, Associates
Dorothy Brett
DB
paid her first visit to Lady Ottoline Morrell
's house at Garsington after meeting her in February of that year; October was also the month which saw her first meeting with D. H.
and...
Textual Production
Dorothy Brett
From about a month after Katherine Mansfield
died until the end of the year (with a kind of postscript before leaving for New Mexico), DB
kept a surviving diary in a volume given her by...
Occupation
Dorothy Brett
After graduating from the Slade School of Art, DB
became a professional artist. Her most famous early exhibition piece was War Widows, painted in 1916, in which a crowd of black-clad pregnant women take...
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...
Introduced by Mark Gertler
, DC
became a frequent visitor of Ottoline Morrell
at her Garsington home (which Carrington privately referred to as Shandygaff Hall).
Hill, Jane, and Michael Holroyd. The Art of Dora Carrington. Herbert Press.
138
Gerzina, Gretchen. Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932. John Murray.
84
Friends, Associates
Dora Carrington
They both visited and shared a room at Ottoline Morrell
's Garsington Manor in September 1916, when, Carrington recalled, Katherine and I wore trousers. It was wonderful being alone in the garden. Hearing the music...
Cultural formation
Dora Carrington
Here, Morrell
and another guest, writer Aldous Huxley
(who were both friends of and loyal to Carrington's admirer Mark Gertler
), confronted Carrington about her reluctance to give up her virginity. She described the episode...
Textual Production
Dora Carrington
Carrington also created other personal writings meant for both private and public consumption. In 1916, she planned to coordinate The Garsington Chronicle, which she imagined would as appear[ing] twice a year / A chronicle...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Elaine Feinstein
Feinstein follows Lawrence from his early aspiration to be a spokesman for women to his later mounting rage against women's desires to use their minds and express their individuality.
Fry travelled to Paris with Clive Bell, Desmond MacCarthy
, and Lady Ottoline Morrell
to select the paintings. On 6 November 1910, RF
launched the Manet
and the Post-Impressionists exhibition at the Grafton Gallery, which...
Timeline
From early summer 1915: Garsington Manor, near Oxford, the home of...
Building item
From early summer 1915
Garsington Manor, near Oxford, the home of Lady Ottoline
and Philip Morrell
, became a centre for many pacifists, conscientious objectors, and non-pacifist critics of the war.
Texts
Morrell, Lady Ottoline, and D’Arcy Cresswell. Dear Lady Ginger. Editor Shaw, Helen, Auckland University Press; Oxford University Press, 1983.
Morrell, Lady Ottoline, and D’Arcy Cresswell. Dear Lady Ginger. Editor Shaw, Helen, Century Press, 1984.
Morrell, Lady Ottoline, and Lord David Cecil. Lady Ottoline’s Album. Editor Heilbrun, Carolyn, Alfred A. Knopf, 1976.
Morrell, Lady Ottoline. Ottoline at Garsington. Editor Gathorne-Hardy, Robert, Faber and Faber, 1974.
Morrell, Lady Ottoline. Ottoline: The Early Memoirs of Lady Ottoline Morrell. Editor Gathorne-Hardy, Robert, Faber and Faber, 1963.