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  Ottoline Morrell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ottoline was a cousin of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, later to become queen, and a direct descendant of Bess of Hardwick.
Ottoline herself was involved with philosopher Bertrand Russell, and painter Augustus John.
Perhaps Lady Ottoline's most interesting legacy are the representations of her that appear in 20th century literature.
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 Ottoline Morrell Collection, Biographical Sketch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Ottoline Violet Anne Cavendish-Bentinck Morrell (1873-1938) was the daughter of Lieutenant-General Arthur Bentinck and his second wife, Augusta Mary Elizabeth.
Ottoline had no playmates of her own age at Welbeck and her education was left in the hands of a governess who taught her to read, write, and memorize Bible verse, but very little else.
When Ottoline was nineteen, it was decided by her mother and the Duke that she should "come out." She was squired through the London "season" with all due pomp and circumstance.
www.hrc.utexas.edu /research/fa/morrell.otto.bio.html   (742 words)

  
 Ottoline Morrell
Lady Ottoline Morrell (1873-1938) was an English socialite, friend and patron of many artistic people, including Aldous Huxley, Siegfried Sassoon and D.
Perhaps Lady Ottoline's most interesting legacy is the caricatures of her that appear in 20th century literature.
She was the inspiration for Mrs Bidlake in Huxley's Point Counter Point[?], for Hermione Roddice in Lawrence's Women in Love (a caricature which outraged her), for Lady Caroline Bury in Graham Greene's It's a Battlefield, and for Lady Sybilline Quarrell in Alan Bennett's Forty Years On[?].
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 Chapter 4
Ottoline was physically unattractive and she defended herself with this charge of bad breath made against him.
According to Monk, Ottoline found his work too academic for her to understand and this was one of the reasons that made Russell turn to topics of social importance.
He wrote to Ottoline, his former mistress, that at first he would go away with Colette, as Ottoline would be busy with her work, and would not be able to stay on for a long period.
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 ottoline morrell - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
Lady Ottoline Morrell (June 16, 1873 - April 21, 1938) was an English socialite, friend and patron of many artistic people, including Aldous Huxley, Siegfried Sassoon and D.
Her first love affair was with an older man, the doctor and writer Axel Munthe, but she rejected his impulsive proposal of marriage because her spiritual beliefs were incompatible with his atheism - only to find that he had already lost interest in her.
Ottoline herself dallied with Bertrand Russell among others.
www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/ottoline-morrell   (463 words)

  
 The Harvard Crimson :: News :: A Moth and Her Flames
Ottoline did not begin to live through others, however, until her attempts to find a lifestyle of her own had failed.
The relationship between Ottoline and her husband is one of the few that Darroch, Ottoline's biographer, leaves unexplored.
Darroch concentrates instead on Ottoline's relationships with more influential artists and thinkers--it is her contribution to their lives, after all, that lifts Lady Morrell from the sad category of the eccentric to the realm of the creative.
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 National Portrait Gallery | Search the collection | Photographs Collection | Lady Ottoline Morrell
Ottoline Violet Anne Cavendish-Bentinck was born on 16 June 1873 at No 5, Portman Square in London.
She was the daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Bentinck and her brother later succeeded as the 6th Duke of Portland whereby she and her siblings received titles due to the children of a Duke.
Lady Ottoline married Philip Morrell, a solicitor, in 1902.
www.npg.org.uk /live/morrellbio.asp   (240 words)

  
 Printer Friendly Format - Hendon Times   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The hostess and patron Ottoline Morrell entertained a fair number of famous people, from the war poet Siegfried Sassoon to the author Henry James, near the start of the 20th century and the National Portrait Gallery has recently acquired the photographic archives that once belonged to her.
These images, spanning a period of 30 years, are either of Morrell or of major figures in the art world with whom she was acquainted and are now free to look at, and they provide unique insights into her character and her guests.
Morrell herself was a very strong minded woman who was also striking and forward and not only did she make close friendships with her guests, she had affairs with some of them too, including the writer and philosopher Bertrand Russell, who is represented highly in this display.
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 Ottoline Morrell - a biographical note
She was born Ottoline Violet Anne Cavendish Bentinck in 1873, acquiring the title of 'Lady' when her half-brother inherited the duchy of Portland in 1879, and the family moved into Welbeck Abbey in Nottinghamshire.
Ottoline was a cousin of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, later to become queen to George VI.
She married Philip Morrell in 1902 and the marriage lasted for the rest of her life, even though like many members of the Bloomsbury Group, their relationship was far from conventional.
www.mantex.co.uk /ou/a319/morrell.htm   (378 words)

  
 Ottoline Morrell Collection, Scope and Contents
Of particular note is the correspondence between Philip Morrell and Frieda Lawrence regarding the legal issues of D.H. Lawrence's estate.
Elsewhere in the Ransom Center are 34 photos of Morrell, her family, and friends, located in the Literary Files of the Photography Collection.
Also present are eleven Vertical Files containing reviews of works Morrell was interested in, a cloth patch found with a letter from Frank Prewett, and a personal statement written by Morrell to be distributed to her friends after her death.
www.hrc.utexas.edu /research/fa/morrell.otto.scope.html   (537 words)

  
 Ottoline Morrell - TheBestLinks.com - Aldous Huxley, April 21, Bertrand Russell, June 16, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Ottoline Morrell - TheBestLinks.com - Aldous Huxley, April 21, Bertrand Russell, June 16,...
Ottoline Morrell, Aldous Huxley, April 21, Bertrand Russell, June 16, Oxford...
Later, Lady Ottoline remained a regular host to the adherants of the Bloomsbury Group, and many other artists and scholars.
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 Ottoline Morrell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Ottoline was a cousin of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon[for more facts and a summary of this subject, click this link], Exception Handler: No article summary found.
Lady Ottoline remained a regular host to the adherents of the Bloomsbury Group (An inner circle of writers and artists and philosophers who lived in or around Bloomsbury early in the 20th century and were noted for their unconventional lifestyles)
Perhaps Lady Ottoline's most interesting legacy are the representations of her that appear in 20th century ((19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries)...)
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 mirandaseymour.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Miranda Seymour is the only Bloomsbury biographer to be allowed access to family papers which include her lost correspondence with Lytton Strachey and the revealing private records she kept from 1902 (the year of her marriage) to her deatlh in 1938.
This is also the first life of Ottoline to have full benefit of Bertrand Russell's 2,500 letters to her.
Fresh and often startling light is thrown not only on her passionate relationship with Bertrand Russell and on her curious marriage to Philip Morrell, which survived against all odds, but also on the Bloomsberries, their snobbery, their malice and their deceit.
www.mirandaseymour.com /ottoline.htm   (305 words)

  
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Presently he was addressing Lady Ottoline: I want you to form the nucleus of a new community which shall start a new life amongst us a life in which the only riches is integrity of character.
Lady Ottoline was bringing Bertrand Russell to meet him, and they say, the island shall be England, that we shall start our new community in the midst of this old one, as a seed falls among the roots of the parent.
Lady Ottoline was planning to set up a cottage for the Lawrences on her Oxfordshire estate which would be the central cell.
www.oac.cdlib.org /view/mets/14/tf52900414.mets.xml   (1884 words)

  
 Find in a Library: Ottoline; the early memoirs of Lady Ottoline Morrell.
Find in a Library: Ottoline; the early memoirs of Lady Ottoline Morrell.
Ottoline; the early memoirs of Lady Ottoline Morrell.
Subjects: Morrell, Ottoline Violet Anne Cavendish-Bentinck, -- Lady, -- 1873-1938.
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 Lady Ottoline Morrell --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
The daughter of a general, she broke with her conventionally upper class background as she formed her circle of artists and intellectuals, which included, among others, D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, Bertrand Russell, and Augustus John.
She and her husband, Philip Edward Morrell, Liberal member of Parliament, lived in London from 1902 until 1913, when they settled at Garsington Manor, Oxfordshire.
A collection of her writings, Ottoline, was edited by R. Gathorne-Hardy in 1963, as was Ottoline at Garsington: Memoirs 1915–18 (1974).
www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9053807   (776 words)

  
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The title of the exhibition is a quotation from a letter written by Lawrence to Lady Ottoline Morrell at the end of February 1915 soon after they had met.
Lady Ottoline was Lawrence's generous friend and patroness during the war years.
Most of the Lawrence letters in the Stanford papers all those addressed to Lady Ottoline Morrell and Cecil Gray were written during the first world war, the worst years of Lawrence's life.
www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/spc/xml/m0116.xml   (2065 words)

  
 Ottoline Morrell: An Inventory of Her Collection at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
Ottoline Morrell: An Inventory of Her Collection at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
Where there is correspondence from Ottoline Morrell, the number in parentheses is followed by the phrase "from Morrell." So in the example
Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970--1.6 (19 from Morrell), 18.4-27.4 (1782), 36.6 (8), 36.7 (15)
www.lib.utexas.edu /taro/uthrc/00094/hrc-00094.html   (1839 words)

  
 NPG 6095; Lady Ottoline Morrell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Lady Ottoline Morrell (1873-1938), Patron of the arts; half-sister of 6th Duke of Portland; married Philip Edward Morrell.
Lady Ottoline Morrell, the chatelaine of Garsington Manor outside Oxford, was a ferocious socialite, friend and lover of artists and writers, including Augustus John, whom she first met in 1906 and with whom she had a brief affair in 1908.
When it was exhibited in 1920, most people were critical of it, the Manchester Guardian writing that 'it is like one of the queer ancestral portraits you see in a scene on the stage, although it is done by a man of genius'.
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 Socialite - TheBestLinks.com - Society, Ottoline Morrell, Lady Victoria Hervey, C. Z. Guest, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Socialite - TheBestLinks.com - Society, Ottoline Morrell, Lady Victoria Hervey, C. Guest,...
Socialite, Society, Ottoline Morrell, Lady Victoria Hervey, C.
Examples of well-known socialites are Violet Trefusis, Daisy Fellowes, Misia Edwards, Ottoline Morrell, C.
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 Ottoline Morrell: Life on a Grand Scale; Author: Seymour, Miranda; Paperback
Ottoline Morrell: Life on a Grand Scale; Author: Seymour, Miranda; Paperback
The universally acclaimed biography of Ottoline Morrell now reissued with startling new material to coincide with a Sunday Times article by the author on the new revelations previously too sensitive to be revealed.
Using her private papers, it identifies her as a major figure in British intellectual and literary circles.
www.netstoreusa.com /labooks/034/0340748257.shtml   (205 words)

  
 The New York Review of Books: Lady Ott
A great hostess is at the mercy of her guests: they analyze and dissect her.
If she publishes her memoirs, they are likely to be vapid, fluttering, or egotistical and confirm all that her enemies have said.
To this Lady Ottoline Morrell is no exception.
www.nybooks.com /articles/13283   (336 words)

  
 Morrell Genealogy Index
These pages exist to display information and interrelationships between people on the Morrell branch of my family, and also as a way, via links, for me to share other items of interest I have discovered in my research.
Philip Edward Morrell, MP (1870-1943), Liberal MP and husband of Lady Ottoline Morrell
Mark Morrell (1737-1787), father of the founders of Morrells Brewery of Oxford - the family responsible for building
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Correspondence makes up the bulk of this collection, supplemented by a few holograph and typescript manuscripts by Morrell and other authors.
When Ottoline was nineteen, it was decided by her mother and the Duke that she should
Where there is correspondence from Ottoline Morrell, the number in parentheses is followed by the phrase
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 Manuscripts Catalogue
Lady Ottoline Morrell is anxious to meet MacColl and his wife and has asked Fry to invite them to...
Autograph letter signed, from Ottoline Morrell to D.S. MacColl.
Concerning the Contemporary Art Society; mentions Lady Ottoline Morrell, Henry Lamb, Orpen, Sargent, Wm.
special.lib.gla.ac.uk /manuscripts/search/resultsn.cfm?NID=4364&RID=   (87 words)

  
 OTTOLINE MORRELL: LIFE ON A GRAND SCALE by Seymour, Miranda   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
OTTOLINE MORRELL: LIFE ON A GRAND SCALE by Seymour, Miranda
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Derided as an overbearing aristocrat who tried to get into intellectual society, pretentious and just a Bloomsbury hostess, this biography paints a very different picture of Ottoline Morrell.
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 Conrad
This world of ours has got to collapse now, in violence and injustice and destruction, nothing will stop it...There is a greater truth than the truth of the present, there is a God beyond these Gods of today.
Lawrence's criticisms of Russell's lectures echo his earlier devastating attacks on Principles of Social Reconstruction and point to the deterioration of his friendship with 'the philosophy-mathematics man', as Lawrence called him, reflected in several letters to Russell and Ottoline Morrell during this time.
'[Bertie's] lectures are all right in themselves, but their effect is negligible...He lives only for fussy trivialities, and for nothing else' (to Ottoline Morrell, 15 February 1916); 'I don't believe your lectures are good.
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