Garsington Revisited : The Legend of Lady Ottoline Morrell Brought Up-To-Date / Sandra J. Darroch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Darroch, Sandra J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intellectual life.

Women intellectuals--Great Britain--Biography.

Women intellectuals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (446 pages) : illustrations, photographs

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

East Barnet, England : John Libbey Publishing Ltd, [2017]

Summary:

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 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.

Contents:

Cover

GARSINGTON REVISITED

Dedication

Title

Copyright

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 &amp

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.

Notes:

Revised edition of: Ottoline : the life of Lady Ottoline Morrell / Sandra Jobson Darroch. New York : Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, [1975].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780861969418

0861969413

OCLC:

988766887