Lady Ottoline Morrell

16 June 1873 - 21 April 1938

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.

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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	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, 1977–1984, 5 vols. 5: 140
Friends, Associates	Enid Bagnold	Bagnold's biographer Anne Sebba writes that try as [EB ] might to belong to the artists' milieu, she could not release her other foot from the smart set. Sebba, Anne. Enid Bagnold: The Authorized Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986. 148 Bagnold's friends included socialist...
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	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, 1944. 73
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 ,...
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...
Occupation	Roger Fry	Fry travelled to Paris with Clive Bell, Desmond MacCarthy , and Lady Ottoline Morrell to select the paintings. On 6 November 1910, RF launched the Manet and the Post-Impressionists exhibition at the Grafton Gallery, which...
politics	Sybille Bedford	The Huxleys and an un-named barrister friend produced a man sympathetic to political refugees and willing to marry her for money: Terry Bedford. The couple met for the first time at the Albany in Piccadilly...
Reception	Doreen Wallace	Lady Ottoline Morrell arranged a launch party for the two authors and invited them to her home at Garsington, but neither or them accepted her invitation. DW wrote later that since she did not...
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...
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, Sept. 2001, pp. 303-31. 325
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...
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, 1944. 72-4 Her title comes from a manifesto...
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...

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