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
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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... |
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 |
Friends, Associates | Dorothy Wellesley | In Rome during the First World War, DW
became a friend of two scholars, Geoffrey Scott
, and Gerald Tyrwhitt, later Lord Berners
. Wellesley, Dorothy. Far Have I Travelled. James Barrie. 133 |
Friends, Associates | Dorothy Bussy | La Souco was visited regularly by all of their Bloomsbury Group friends, among them Lytton
and the other Strachey siblings, the Vanessa
and Clive Bell
, Virginia
and Leonard Woolf
, John Maynard Keynes
and... |
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. 72 |
Friends, Associates | Dora Carrington | 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 | 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. 1: 77-8 |
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... |
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 | 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... |
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 |
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 |
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