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Lady Ottoline Morrell was the foremost host of the Bloomsbury set, offering sustenance and friendship to Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, TS Eliot, DH Lawrence, Duncan Grant and her lover Bertrand Russell, to name but a few. This book is a revised and updated edition of the author's original biography of Ottoline first published in 1975 worldwide. It has been updated, with vignettes about her sources, including lunch at ?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" / Charleston with Duncan Grant, and a ship's tumbler of sherry with David Garnett as a prelude to discussing "skeletons in Ottoline's cupboard"). Her sources in Texas where she read more than 8,000 letters to Ottoline including 2,500 letters from Bertrand Russell, can now be located in new footnotes. Darroch remains as impressed as ever by Ottoline's courage and determination to forgo the comfortable life of an aristocrat to mix with – and champion – some of the 20th century's leading artists and writers. The definitive biography.

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Publié par	John Libbey Publishing
Date de parution	05 juin 2017
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780861969418
Langue	English
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GARSINGTON
REVISITED
Dedicated to my husband Rob, who not only helped with the research, but also edited the text .
Cover portrait of Ottoline by Simon Bussy
GARSINGTON REVISITED
The Legend of Lady Ottoline Morrell Brought Up-to-Date
Sandra Jobson Darroch
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Garsington Revisited. The Legend of Lady Ottoline Morrell Brought Up-to-Date
A catalogue entry for this book is available from the British Library
ISBN: 9780 86196 737 7 (Paperback)
ISBN: 9780 86196 941 8 (Ebook)

This book was first published as Ottoline: the Life of Lady Ottoline Morrell by Coward McCann Geoghegan (New York) in 1975, and by Chatto Windus (London) in 1976. Cassell (London) published the Paperback Edition in 1982.
This later edition, Garsington Revisited , is a revised and updated version of the original biography and contains additional vignettes and interludes, including accounts of interviews with a number of Ottoline s contemporaries. It is published by John Libbey Publishing Ltd, in association with Svengali Press ETT Imprint in print and ebook formats. Apart from any fair-dealing for the purposes of private study, research, criticism or review (as permitted under the Copyright Act), no part may be reproduced by any process without written permission. Any inquiries should be addressed to trilby@svengalipress.com.au
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Distributed Worldwide by Indiana University Press,
Herman B Wells Library - 350, 1320 E. 10th St., Bloomington, IN 47405, USA.
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2017 Copyright Sandra Jobson Darroch. All rights reserved.
Unauthorised duplication contravenes applicable laws.
Printed and bound in the United States of America
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
Prelude
A Blow-in From the Colonies
Chapter 1
THE LEGEND OF OTTOLINE
Interlude
Hook em Horns
Chapter 2
THE DAUGHTER OF A THOUSAND EARLS
Interlude
Stalked by the Dook
Chapter 3
HUNT N, SHOOT N FISH N
Picture Spread
The Early Men in Her Life
Chapter 4
THE BUTTERFLY SPREADS HER WINGS
Interlude
The Druce-Portland Case
Chapter 5
TALL, DARK AND HANDSOME, BUT NO MR D ARCY
Picture Spread
On Honeymoon
Chapter 6
MARY FOTHERINGHAM: OTTOLINE S FIRST APPEARANCE IN PRINT
Interlude
The Centre of the World
Chapter 7
OTTOLINE LAUNCHES HERSELF ON THE SEA OF LONDON
Interlude
The Hostess with the Mostest
Chapter 8
THE GREAT LADY OF BEDFORD SQUARE
Picture Spread
44 Bedford Square
Chapter 9
THE ARCH-PRIEST OF BLOOMSBURY
Interlude
The Bloomsbury Group
Chapter 10
BERTIE STAYS THE NIGHT
Interlude
A Lamb in Wolf s Clothing
Chapter 11
FURTHER ENTANGLEMENTS
Interlude
Mixing Beethoven with Mozart
Chapter 12
NEWS OF THE SCANDAL SPREADS
Interlude
A Thumbs-up From Michael Holroyd
Chapter 13
THE GATHERING STORM
Interlude
My Introduction to Bloomsbury
Chapter 14
THE STORM CLOUDS BREAK
Interlude
Lunch with Duncan Grant
Chapter 15
THE WORKING-CLASS LAD FROM NOTTINGHAM
Interlude
Why Don t You Look Into Lawrence?
Chapter 16
ESCAPE TO THE COUNTRY
Picture Spread
At Garsington
Chapter 17
STICKING PINS INTO OTTOLINE
Interlude
My First Glimpse of Garsington
Chapter 18
BITING THE HAND THAT FED HIM
Interlude
I See a Ghost
Chapter 19
THE WORST YEAR OF HER LIFE
Interlude
A Brief Moment in the Limelight
Chapter 20
BERTIE GOES TO GAOL
Interlude
The Men in Her Life
Chapter 21
TIGER, TIGER
Interlude
A Visit to Hatfield House
Chapter 22
THE YOUNGER BRIGADE
Picture Spread
10 Gower Street
Chapter 23
THE DEAREST LITTLE DOLLS HOUSE
Interlude
My Strange Visit to Pamela Diamand
Appendix: The Lady and the Pug
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Key To End-notes
End-notes
Index
INTRODUCTION
FOUR DECADES have now passed since I wrote Ottoline - The Life of Lady Ottoline Morrell (published in New York in 1975 and in London in 1976). I explain below the unusual circumstances of how this came about. It was to be the first biography of one of the 20 th century s most exotic literary figures, and only the second Bloomsbury biography , following Michael Holroyd s 1967 life of Lytton Strachey. Since then much has been written about the literary and artistic milieu in which Ottoline cut such an outstanding figure, and in which she became a catalyst for some of the century s most important literature (in which she herself sometimes played a leading role). It was time, I felt, to revisit my biography, and tell about the people - almost all of them now dead - whom I was fortunate to meet and obtain their first-hand accounts of Ottoline and her circle. So, interposed throughout this revised-and-updated text, I have added a number of interludes and vignettes about people I interviewed, places I visited, and the progress of my research from 1972 to 1975. More interestingly perhaps - because of the time that has elapsed - I am now able to be more forthcoming about what I learnt in confidence from some of these encounters (such as what David Garnett told me about what he called the skeletons in Ottoline s cupboard ).
I was only in my twenties when, back in the 1970s, I began delving into Ottoline s life (as I describe below). So I thought that it would be useful now to look back on Ottoline and her world from the perspective of today and the values of the present era. I wrote my original biography at an exciting moment in biography. With his Lytton Strachey , Holroyd had broken through the barriers of prissy, old-fashioned biography, leaving hagiography in his wake, and ushering in a new world of candid truthfulness in the depiction of the lives of famous people. It was also at the beginning of the Bloomsbury cult , which has lasted as a literary and biographical phenomenon to the present day.
Looking at photographs of Ottoline in her 30s and early 40s, I see her quite differently today. When I first wrote my book, she seemed to me quite old. Now she looks much younger. In her heyday she was a very beautiful and attractive woman. Yet her later detractors knew her only after her prime had passed, when she had become a caricature of her former self. So in awe and jealous were many of her contemporaries of her aristocratic background that they failed to understand that Ottoline was far from wealthy, and that her bountiful behaviour was an act of generosity, not that of a rich woman bestowing largesse.
I have kept most of the early part of this book substantially the same as the first book, adding embellishments here and there, correcting errors in dates, clarifying that which was unclear, and focusing anew on aspects of Ottoline s early life. As well, a number of subsequent works have helped fill out the picture I originally drew of Ottoline, particularly Miranda Seymour s 1992 biography, Ottoline Morrell. Life on the Grand Scale (and which I acknowledge more fully below). The publication by the Cambridge University Press of D.H. Lawrence s Letters allowed me to see many letters from Lawrence to people other than Ottoline, and these helped me present a fuller account of Lawrence s troubled relationship with her, and the break-up of their friendship over his portrayal of her in Women in Love .
Lady Ottoline s Album , a collection of photographs taken by Ottoline and published shortly after my book with an introduction by David Cecil, I found useful for his reminiscences of Ottoline (whom he found at once very beautiful yet somehow grotesque ), and of Oxford s undergraduate days. Also valuable was Julian Vinogradoff s account in the Album of her mother s professional approach to photography, detailing the types of cameras she used, and her insistence on using the best photo-labs to develop and print her captured images.
Although Miranda Seymour s 1992 biography was far-more-comprehensive than mine (the word thorough comes to mind, in a most complimentary sense), we tended to emphasise different aspects of Ottoline s life. However, we based our research on much the same primary material. (I was especially pleased to see that she made use of my discovery of John Adam Cramb s early relationship with Ottoline.) Having had access to Ottoline s manuscript Diary (which had been denied to me - see my Julian Vinogradoff Interlude below), she revealed two important new pieces in the Ottoline jigsaw. The first was the names of two women who each bore Philip Morrell a son. I had mentioned this in my biography, for David Garnett had told me about Philip s liaisons and their resulting progeny. But I had not named the two women because both sons were then prominent in their fields - medicine and diplomacy - and I did not want to compromise their careers. The second new item was the revelation by Seymour of a late affair Ottoline had with a young stonemason, Lionel Gomme. I have updated my new volume accordingly, acknowledging the source. However, I find myself hesitant to share Seymour s emphasis on the importance of this affair. Although no doubt something did occur, I believe it may have been, to a some extent, a reflection of Ottoline s disturbed mental state at that time. It may not have been as physical