OTTOLINE MORRELL EB
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OTTOLINE MORRELL EB

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OTTOLINE MORRELL EB

About this book

'A kind of blissography, teeming with bon mots' Sunday Times

A celebrated modern classic that has revolutionised our understanding of the Bloomsbury group and remains the definitive biography of the group's gloriously eccentric patron, Lady Ottoline Morrell. Met with widespread acclaim and translated into fifteen languages, this seminal book provoked a rethinking of the traditional Bloomsbury narrative and the rewriting of some major biographies.

For decades, Ottoline Morrell was grossly misunderstood. The artists and writers who benefited from her generous patronage and friendship helped to create the false and vicious image of a nymphomanical aristocrat with cultural aspirations. This landmark literary biography presents Morrell in an entirely new light, rightly setting her centre-stage as the brilliant and courageous lynchpin of the Bloomsbury group. She counted T.S. Eliot, Aldous Huxley, D.H. Lawrence, Lytton Strachey, Siegfried Sassoon, Augustus John, Katherine Mansfield and W.B. Yeats among her closest friends and houseguests. A legendary and agonisingly protracted love-affair with Bertrand Russell never undermined this unlikely couple's deep and understanding friendship. Ottoline's loyalty to her own promiscuous husband survived public humiliation and private crises.

Overhauling the long-held conventional view of Morrell as a victim, a creature of her class who was born to be exploited and derided by her wittier friends, Seymour repaints the world of the Bloomsberries and rescues the grand life of Ottoline Morrell from the depths of historical obscurity.

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Information

Publisher
William Collins
Year
2024
eBook ISBN
9780008650353
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Biographies
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Epigraph
  5. Family tree
  6. Introduction
  7. PART ONE: A VICTORIAN LIFE
  8. PART TWO: STEPS TOWARDS LIBERTY
  9. PART THREE: OTTOLINE AND BERTIE
  10. PART FOUR: GARSINGTON
  11. PART FIVE: NO. 10 GOWER STREET
  12. Afterword
  13. Picture Section
  14. Appendix I ‘The Planes of Bedford Square’ by William Plomer
  15. Appendix II
  16. Appendix III
  17. Further Reading
  18. Notes and Sources
  19. Footnotes
  20. Index
  21. Acknowledgements
  22. About the Author
  23. By the Same Author
  24. About the Publisher

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