Her biographers and critics have devoted much comment to her personal and literary statements on women, marriage, and independence. Wyatt-Brown reads her return to her family home as a fairly conservative action for her place...
Cultural formation
Barbara Pym
As for marriage, BP
's involvements with men as a student must have been to some extent influenced by social pressure to marry. She felt badly let down when Henry Harvey
decided to wed another...
Literary responses
Margaret Forster
The response of reviewers, including specialists in feminist biography, was enthusiastic. Victoria Glendinning
in the Times welcomed a development she said she had been looking forward to: a biography offering sympathetic comprehension of the inner...
Literary responses
Constance Garnett
Yet her translations created an amazing legacy. D. H. Lawrence
, a friend of her husband
's, compared the couple's writing styles in these terms: Edward would rack his brain and suffer while his wife,...
Author summary
Constance Garnett
During the first half of the twentieth century, CG
translated over seventy volumes of Russian literature. At the expense of her eyesight, she translated the major works of Tolstoy
, Gorky
, and others, and...
Publishing
Lady Ottoline Morrell
The volume Lady Ottoline's Album: Snapshots and Portraits of her famous contemporaries (and of herself), photographed for the most part by Lady Ottoline Morrell, was published, edited by Carolyn Heilbrun
.
Morrell, Lady Ottoline, and Lord David Cecil. Lady Ottoline’s Album. Editor Heilbrun, Carolyn, Alfred A. Knopf, 1976.
prelims
Reception
Mary Renault
Peter Wolfe
and Carolyn Heilbrun
both praise MR
for brilliantly documented classical settings, and for making modern themes at home in ancient history. Heilbrun comments that Renault seems to have denied her ancient heroines the...
Residence
Lady Ottoline Morrell
Evocations of Garsington Manor appear in various works of fiction by her contemporaries. In 1976 the critic Carolyn Heilbrun
edited a collection of photographs taken by Lady Ottoline at her home.
Morrell, Lady Ottoline, and Lord David Cecil. Lady Ottoline’s Album. Editor Heilbrun, Carolyn, Alfred A. Knopf, 1976.