Lady Ottoline Morrell papers

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Lady Ottoline Morrell papers

1916-1934

http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1535

Lady Ottoline Morrell (1873-1938) was a British-born literary hostess of the World War I era. Her group of friends, including D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forester, T. S. Eliot, Bertrand Russell, Aldous Huxley, H. G. Wells, Siegfried Sassoon, and Virginia Woolf, was known as the Bloomsbury Group. They often met at one of the Morrell homes at Bedford Square, Gower Street, or the country home at Garsington. The collection includes Lady Morrell's correspondence to Siegfried Sassoon, publications documenting her literary interests and photographs.

0.25 linear feet

eng, Latn

University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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Morrell, Lady Ottoline

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Lady Ottoline Morrell's (1873-1938) desire to support and encourage creativity led her to become a literary hostess and friend to many of the literary and artistic giants of post-World-War-I Britain. By opening her homes at Bedford Square and Garsington as gathering places for conversation she became acquainted with T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, John Gielgud, D. H. Lawrence, Siegfried Sassoon, John Singer Sargent, and Virginia Woolf. Morrell did not limit her invitations to the Blooms...

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941

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Virginia Woolf (b. January 25, 1882, London, England–d. March 28, 1941, Ouse, River, Englnad) was a noted novelist and is now viewed as a pioneer of feminist literature. She was a member of the Bloomsbury Group, comprised of English artists, philosophers, and writers in the early twentieth century. She was also a co-founder and operator (along with husband Leonard Woolf) of Hogarth Press. Though she received little formal education, her father, a writer and editor with strong ...

Morrell, Ottoline Violet Anne Cavendish-Bentinck, Lady, 1873-1938

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Patron of the arts and society hostess. From the description of Ottoline Morrell Collection, 1882-1946 (bulk 1882-1938). (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122648377 British-born literary hostess of the World War I and post-war periods. From the description of Papers. 1916-1934. (University of Maryland Libraries). WorldCat record id: 23685667 Purchase; John Wilson (Autographs) Ltd.; 1992. ...