Lady Ottoline Morrell

Lady Ottoline Morrell

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 such as Aldous Huxley, Siegfried Sassoon, T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence, and artists such as Mark Gertler, Dora Carrington and Gilbert Spencer.

Read more about Lady Ottoline Morrell:  Early Life, Notable Love Affairs, Hospitality, Later Life, Her After-life in Literature

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