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 | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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 | 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 |
Textual Features | Mary Agnes Hamilton | She was inspired to write it by a hatred of war, which was encouraged by political activists including such women as Vernon Lee
and Lady Ottoline Morrell
. Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape. 72-4 |
Travel | Constance Holme | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Constance Holme | He was thirteen years older than she was. He too had succeeded his father in his position, and his employer was Lord Henry Bentinck
, brother of Lady Ottoline Morrell
. The marriage was childless... |
Textual Production | Aldous Huxley | AH
's first novel, Crome Yellow, appeared: a country-house satire which greatly offended Ottoline Morrell
, whom he had often visited at Garsington. Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press. 356-7 Drabble, Margaret, and Jenny Stringer, editors. The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press. 278 Watt, Donald, editor. Aldous Huxley: The Critical Heritage. Routledge and Kegan Paul. 58 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Aldous Huxley | They met while she, a well-connected Belgian, boarded at Garsington (the home of Member of Parliament Philip Morrell
and his wife Ottoline Morrell
, a centre for conscientious objectors, where AH
spent a good deal... |
Friends, Associates | Aldous Huxley | Those friends of Aldous whom his wife Maria referred to as the brilliant ones, Bedford, Sybille. Aldous Huxley. Knopf; Harper & Row. 105 |
Friends, Associates | D. H. Lawrence | Several women writers were numbered among DHL
's friends and acquaintances: Amy Lowell
, Katherine Mansfield
, Anna Wickham
, Lady Cynthia Asquith
, Carrington
, Brett
, Catherine Carswell
, and Lady Ottoline Morrell |
Reception | D. H. Lawrence | Because of its treatment of lesbianism and other sexual topics, the book was prosecuted under Lord Campbell's Obscene Publications Act, with the aid of the National Purity League
. Lady Ottoline Morrell
persuaded her husband... |
Textual Features | D. H. Lawrence | The novel follows the personal and intellectual development of two sisters from The Rainbow: Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen, along with their lovers, family, and friends. It also contains fictionalized portraits of Dora Carrington
(as... |
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 |
Residence | Vernon Lee | VL
was staying with Lady Ottoline
and Philip Morrell
at 44 Bedford Square in Bloomsbury when the Great War (later called the First World War) broke out. She stayed in London throughout the war, first... |
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 | 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 |
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