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.
Sepia-toned photograph of Lady Ottoline Morrell, shown from the shoulders up. She is wearing a dark velvet dress with a layer of lace at the top and arms made of semi-sheer ribbed material. Her hair is jaw length, dark, and curly, and she is wearing pearl earrings and necklaces.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Antonia White
In Chelsea AW formed a friendship with the painter Eliot Seabrooke , a large and centred personality
Dunn, Jane. Antonia White: A Life. Jonathan Cape.
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who supplied an oasis of sanity in her life and helped her to sort out her opinions...
Friends, Associates Virginia Woolf
VW visited Garsington Manor, home of Lady Ottoline and Philip Morrell , for the first time.
Woolf, Virginia. The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Editors Bell, Anne Olivier and Andrew McNeillie, Hogarth Press.
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Friends, Associates Virginia Woolf
Early members of what VW called Old Bloomsbury (to distinguish the original members of the group from later additions) included Virginia and Vanessa Stephen , Leonard Woolf , Clive Bell , E. M. Forster ,...
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Virginia Woolf
This work is not so much a diary as a working notebook: its seven sketches take events or issues from VW ' life as grist to (in Doris Lessing 's words) five-finger exercises for future...
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.
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, No. 3, pp. 303-31.
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Reception E. H. Young
The bulk of EHY 's papers remain in the possession of Mr Bill Saunders . Her correspondence with Lady Ottoline Morrell is at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center , University of Texas at Austin .
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.
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