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
Family and Intimate relationships Lady Margaret Sackville
The friendship between the widowed James Ramsay MacDonald , Labour politician, and LMS began in 1912 and proved important and long-lasting. She was said to have declined a proposal of marriage from him. The writer...
Friends, Associates Lady Margaret Sackville
LMS became, according to Mary Agnes Hamilton , one of those [e]verybody who was anybody in the anti-war movement, who gathered around Lady Ottoline Morrell .
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape.
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She was an occasional visitor at the Morrells'...
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 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
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.
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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 Viola Meynell
VM met Lawrence through Ivy Low . Enthusiastic about his writing, she offered to lend him her cottage and to do his typing. During his stay on the Meynells' property, Lawrence introduced Viola to Ottoline Morrell
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.
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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.
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There its owner's wife, Lady Ottoline Morrell , a writer and a well-known hostess...
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 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...
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.
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Drabble, Margaret, and Jenny Stringer, editors. The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press.
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Watt, Donald, editor. Aldous Huxley: The Critical Heritage. Routledge and Kegan Paul.
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