Ottoline: The Life Of Lady Ottoline Morrell
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A richly detailed biography, Ottoline: The Life of Lady Ottoline Morrell chronicles the extraordinary life of one of Edwardian and early twentieth-century Britain's most captivating and unconventional figures. Lady Ottoline Morrell was a celebrated patron of the arts whose Bloomsbury Group connections brought her into intimate contact with luminaries such as Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, Bertrand Russell, and Lytton Strachey. Sandra Jobson Darroch paints a vivid portrait of a woman who defied the social conventions of her aristocratic upbringing to become a magnetic force at the heart of modern British intellectual and artistic life. With authority and empathy, the biography uncovers the passions, contradictions, and remarkable influence of a woman who shaped an era while remaining fascinatingly on its edges.
Author: Sandra Jobson Darroch
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A richly detailed biography, Ottoline: The Life of Lady Ottoline Morrell chronicles the extraordinary life of one of Edwardian and early twentieth-century Britain's most captivating and unconventional figures. Lady Ottoline Morrell was a celebrated patron of the arts whose Bloomsbury Group connections brought her into intimate contact with luminaries such as Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, Bertrand Russell, and Lytton Strachey. Sandra Jobson Darroch paints a vivid portrait of a woman who defied the social conventions of her aristocratic upbringing to become a magnetic force at the heart of modern British intellectual and artistic life. With authority and empathy, the biography uncovers the passions, contradictions, and remarkable influence of a woman who shaped an era while remaining fascinatingly on its edges.