#ottoline morrell

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"lady ottoline morrell" by augustus john, oil on canvas, 1919

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1908 (August) Lady Ottoline Morrell at the beach by Philip Edward Morrell (National Portrait Gallery- London, UK). From lady-ottoline-morrell.tumblr.com/?og=1; doubled size and fixed mono-color tint 478X800.

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what a beauty

c. 1908

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Edward Horner (1888-1917) with Lady Ottoline Morrell, July 1909

Edward Horner, without an achievement to his name except his gallant death, was one of the remarkable figures of his time. ... He was a typical aristocrat, but typical rather of the eighteenth century than of the twentieth. There was something splendid in him, beginning with his appearance. He was very tall, and graceful; his head, but for a nose a little too large, was of a Greek type most like the Hermes of Praxiteles, with perfect modelling of forehead, mouth and chin, gray luminous eyes, and fair and curling hair; and his hands were large and beautiful. He was a considerable dandy, with a touch of individuality in harking back to older fashions, stocks, and hats with significant brims; and he loved choice accessories, sticks with ivory knobs, folded ties, and pins. His character and his ways were splendid too — he was generous and free-handed to the point of extravagance, and in everything absolutely fearless, or audacious; adored by servants and tenants, and delighted in by everyone who valued salience above convention. — Edward Marsh, A Number of People

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Oh, I didn't know about Ottoline and the Oxfordshire connection. Garsington is actually just about within cycling distance of the city, I went there once but didn't notice the manor house.

Interesting character:

Snapshots of Virginia Woolf taken by Lady Ottoline Morrell at her home, Garsington, c. 1917.

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The Palladian Bridge, Wilton House, Wiltshire

The Palladian Bridge at Wilton House, in Wiltshire, was built in 1736-37 for Henry Herbert, the 9th Earl of Pembroke. The design was his own, and such was his passion for building that he became known as the ‘Architect Earl’. The bridge crosses the River Nadder which forms the boundary between the formal gardens and informal landscape. Continue reading The Palladian Bridge, Wilton House, Wiltshire

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[Nessuna come lei][Sara De Simone]

Garsington 1916: Tra obiettori di coscienza, nudisti e artisti, nasce l’amicizia letteraria tra Katherine Mansfield e Virginia Woolf Titolo: Nessuna come lei. Katherine Mansfield e Virginia Woolf. Storia di un’amiciziaScritto da: Sara De SimoneEdito da: Neri PozzaAnno: 2024Pagine: 432ISBN: 9791255021773 La sinossi di Nessuna come lei di Sara De Simone Nel luglio del 1916, Garsington, la villa…

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In Britain, eugenics united such social radicals as Havelock Ellis, Ottoline Morrell, George Bernard Shaw, Harold Laski, and Beatrice and Sidney Webb with such establishmentarians as Leonard Darwin, who after twenty years in Her Majesty's Royal Engineers had retired to good causes and the country gentry, and Dean William Inge of St. Paul's Cathedral – the Gloomy Dean, as he was known – who relished the Duke of Wellington's alleged remark that the Battle of Waterloo had been won on the playing fields of Eton.

"In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity" - Daniel J. Kevles

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Lady Ottoline Morrell, full name: Lady Ottoline Violet Anne Morrell (16 June 1873 – 21 April 1938) was an English aristocrat and society hostess. Her patronage was influential in artistic and intellectual circles, where she befriended writers including Aldous Huxley, Siegfried Sassoon, T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence, and artists including Mark Gertler, Dora Carrington and Gilbert Spencer.

Dora Carrington, Ralph Partridge, Lytton and Oliver Strachey, and Frances Marshall (later Partridge); snapshot by Lady Ottoline Morrell, 1923

Portrait of Lady Ottoline Morrell by Adolf de Meyer, c. 1912

Her photography

Katherine Mansfield, 1916–17

Kathleen Mansfield Murry (née Beauchamp; 14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) was a New Zealand writer and critic who was an important figure in the modernist movement. Her works are celebrated across the world, and have been published in 25 languages. Via Wikipedia

Jean de Menasce, Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, and Eric Siepmann, 1922

Virginia Woolf and T. S. Eliot, 1924

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some items owned by lady ottoline morrell, from the "bring no clothes" exhibition

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Portraits from 1909 -

Top left 1909 (first exhibited) Lady with Sables by Sir John Lavery (auctioned by Sotheby’s). From their Web site; fixed cracks, edges, & bigger spots w Pshop 1670X1995.

Top right 1909 (July) Lady Ottoline Morrell with Edward William Horner by ? (National Portrait Gallery - London, UK) From pinterest.com/galenweeks/lady-ottoline-morrell/; removed mono-color tint 449X761.

Left 1909 A Cup of Tea by Lilian Wescott Hale (location ?). From tumblr.com/themusingsofadah 2048X2961.

Right 1909 Antoinette at Her Dressing Table by Mary Cassatt (private collection). From the dicontinued Athenaeum Web site 494X613.

Left 1909 Emily Perkins by Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (private collection). From Wikimedia 1588X2000,

Right 1909 Emmi Lewald by Conrad Kiesel (location ?). From Wikimedia 700X1214.

Left 1909 Esperanza Conill de Zanetti by Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (auctioned by Sotheby's). From their Web site 2146X3030.

Right 1909 Georgine Shillard-Smith by Hugh Henry Breckenridge (Philadelphia Museum of Art - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA). From their Web site 853X1469.

Left 1909 Grand Princess Victoria Melita. From liveinternet.ru/users/3251944/post340396283/ 700X1064.

Right 1909 Helen Gordon-Lennox, Duchess of Northumberland. From antique-royals.tumblr.com/tagged/vintage 1250X1920.

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Bloomsbury group, July 1915: Lady Ottoline Morrell; Maria Huxley (née Nys); Lytton Strachey; Duncan Grant; Vanessa Bell

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Lady Ottoline Morrell, 1900s

"Lady Ottoline Morrell, Bloomsbury Group society and literary hostess, sometimes wore extravagant Turkish robes and dyed her hair a soft purple. Here it is parted in the middle. swept up with combs, and probably pinned over hair pads to create the exaggerated rolls of hair which were fashionable at the time. Wherever she appeared, Lady Ottoline invariably caught the eye; Quentin Bell, the son of Clive and Vanessa Bell, described her as 'that fantastic baroque flamingo…"

Scanned and quoted from the book "Decades of Fashion" by Harriet Worsley.

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cabinet cards of young ottoline

c. 1900

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Pages from the diary of Lady Ottoline Morrell (feat. Virginia Woolf and TS Eliot), from Garsington May 27 (1926)