Ottoline: The Life Of Lady Ottoline Morrell
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Usual shelf-wear. Tears and chips along folds and corners of jacket.
At the glittering, turbulent heart of early twentieth-century British intellectual and artistic life stood one extraordinary woman — Lady Ottoline Morrell, patron, muse, and force of nature whose salons at Garsington Manor drew the greatest minds of her age. Sandra Jobson Darroch's biography chronicles the remarkable life of this aristocratic maverick, whose intimate circle included Bertrand Russell, D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, and Lytton Strachey, illuminating how she shaped and was shaped by the modernist movement that would redefine Western culture. Darroch writes with precision and vivid detail, reconstructing Ottoline's world through letters, diaries, and memoirs to present a portrait that is both intimate and sweeping in its cultural scope. The biography situates Ottoline not merely as a colourful peripheral figure but as a central, animating presence in the Bloomsbury Group and beyond — a woman who defied the constraints of her class and era with passionate conviction. Rich in psychological insight and social history, Ottoline raises enduring questions about the nature of patronage, female agency, and what it truly means to live a life dedicated to art and ideas.
Author: Sandra Jobson Darroch
Format: Hardback
Published: 1976, Chatto & Windus
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Usual shelf-wear. Tears and chips along folds and corners of jacket.
At the glittering, turbulent heart of early twentieth-century British intellectual and artistic life stood one extraordinary woman — Lady Ottoline Morrell, patron, muse, and force of nature whose salons at Garsington Manor drew the greatest minds of her age. Sandra Jobson Darroch's biography chronicles the remarkable life of this aristocratic maverick, whose intimate circle included Bertrand Russell, D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, and Lytton Strachey, illuminating how she shaped and was shaped by the modernist movement that would redefine Western culture. Darroch writes with precision and vivid detail, reconstructing Ottoline's world through letters, diaries, and memoirs to present a portrait that is both intimate and sweeping in its cultural scope. The biography situates Ottoline not merely as a colourful peripheral figure but as a central, animating presence in the Bloomsbury Group and beyond — a woman who defied the constraints of her class and era with passionate conviction. Rich in psychological insight and social history, Ottoline raises enduring questions about the nature of patronage, female agency, and what it truly means to live a life dedicated to art and ideas.