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    Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale

    April 1,
    For reasons that are not clear to me, I have for some time been reading Bloomsbury-related books deep in the night when inom can't sleep, which is often. Besides the obvious Virginia Woolf works, I've read her journals as selected in A Writer's Diary, two volumes of the 6-volume collection of her letters, a biography of Leonard Woolf, and others. All of them mention OM, sometimes in considerable detail, so it's refreshing to get a different view of this woman who, among other things, had a long and passionate love affair with Bertrand Russell, and highly charged relationships with many other writers and artists of the period. In this telling, OM comes off relatively well, and the Bloomsberries look sneaky, petty, catty, treacherous, hypocritical, and opportunistic--even though they all were at one time or another utterly entranced with her. Bottom line, I get the feeling, is that they wouldn't have had a damn thing to do with her had

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    (1) Virginia Woolf, Old Bloomsbury (c. )

    When indeed one remembers that drawing room full of people, the pale yellows and pinks of the brocades, the Italian chairs, the Persian rugs, the embroideries, the tassels, the scent, the pomegranates, the pugs, the pot-pourri and Ottoline bearing down upon one from afar in her white sjal with the great scarlet flowers on it and sweeping one away out of the large room and the crowd into a little room with her alone, where she plied one with questions that were so intimate and so intense inom think my excitement may be excused.

    (2) Hermione Lee, Virginia Woolf()

    In , Ottoline seemed to her a "fancy-dress" character, an alluring, ridiculous phenomenon. Lady Ottoline, then thirty-six, was unhappily married to Philip Morrell, a Liberal MP. She had a three-year-old daughter, Julian (the survivor of twins), and since she had been turning herself into a famous hostess for writers and artists at 4

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    Ottoline: The Life of Lady Ottoline Morrell

    May 14,
    If you like historical gossip, you will love this book! Lady Ottoline Morrell was a kind of spiritual den mother to some interesting characters. Being married to a Member of Parliament was insufficient to satisfy her hunger for intellectual and emotional stimulation. Her salons in London, and later at her estate near Oxford, attracted a potpourri of outrageous people, ranging from politicians like Prime Minister Asquith, Winston Churchill, and Ramsay MacDonald to Bohemian artists like Augustus John. Her friends and guests included D. H. Lawrence, Siegfried Sassoon, John Singer Sargent, E. M. Forster, Nijinsky and Diaghilev, John Maynard Keynes, Arnold Bennett, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, William Butler Yeats, T. S. Eliot, Graham Greene, even Charley Chaplin.

    Biographer Lytton Strachey was a regular, as were Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, Bertrand Russell, and many others. Just about anybody who was anybody in the arts was invite