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Throughout her life, Ottoline was an incurable romantic. Her first love affair was with an older man, the doctor and writer Axel Munthe, but she rejected his impulsive proposal of marriage because her spiritual beliefs were incompatible with his atheism - only to find that he had already lost interest in her.
She married the would-be Liberal politician, Philip Morrell , in 1902, with whom she shared many views and interests. The marriage lasted for the rest of her life, although both partners had several affairs. Ottoline herself dallied with Bertrand Russell among others. They had one child, a daughter, Julian. Nevertheless, their home at Garsington ManorGarsington Manor in the village of Garsington, near Oxford, England, is a Tudor building, best known as the former home of Lady Ottoline Morrell. The manor was built on land once owned by the son of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer, and at one time had the name near OxfordThis is about the city of Oxford in England. See also other meanings, including other cities. Oxford is a city and local government district in Oxfordshire, England, with a population of 134,248 ( 2001 census). Its latitude and longitude are 51°45'07" N a became a haven for like-minded people. During World War IWorld War I (also known as the First World War , the Great War the War of the Nations and the "War to End All Wars") was a world conflict occurring from 1914 to 1918. No previous conflict had mobilized so many soldiers, or involved so many in the field of, they were notable pacifists, inviting conscientious objectorA conscientious objector is an individual whose personal beliefs are incompatible with military service, or sometimes with any role in the armed forces. This constitutes a conflict in the case of conscription. The reasons for refusing to serve are varied.s to take refuge on their home farm at Garsington. Amongst these conscientious objectors were Duncan GrantDuncan James Corrowr Grant ( 1885- 1978) was a Scottish painter, a member of the Bloomsbury group. He was born in Rothiemurchus near Inverness and studied art at the Slade School and in Italy and Paris. He was a cousin (and for some time a lover) of Lytto and David Garnett (which was one of the reasons why they moved to the nearby Charleston with Vanessa BellVanessa Bell ( 1879- 1961) was an English painter and interior designer and a member of the Bloomsbury group. She was born Vanessa Stephen a daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen and the elder sister of Virginia, who later became better known as the novelist, Vi in the early years of the war). It was at Garsington ManorGarsington Manor in the village of Garsington, near Oxford, England, is a Tudor building, best known as the former home of Lady Ottoline Morrell. The manor was built on land once owned by the son of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer, and at one time had the name, also, that Siegfried Sassoon, recuperating after a period of sick leave, was encouraged to go absent without leave in a protest against the war. The hospitality offered by the Morrells was such that most of their guests had no suspicion that they were in financial difficulties.
Later, Lady Ottoline remained a regular host to the adherants of the Bloomsbury Group, and many other artists and scholars. She could certainly be considered as a patron to many of them, while not void of artistic aspirations (of an extravagant camp-like kind) herself too.
Perhaps Lady Ottoline's most interesting legacy are the representations of her that appear in 20th century literature. She was the inspiration for Mrs Bidlake in Huxley's Point Counter Point, for Hermione Roddice in D. H. Lawrence's Women in Love, for Lady Caroline Bury in Graham Greene's It's a Battlefield, and for Lady Sybilline Quarrell in Alan Bennett's Forty Years On . The Coming Back ( 1933), another novel which portrays her, was written by Constance Malleson, one of Ottoline's many rivals for the affection of Bertrand Russell.
Also non-literary portraits are part of this interesting legacy, e.g. the artistic photographs of her by Cecil Beaton and others.
Biography: Ottoline Morrell: Life on a Grand Scale by Miranda Seymour (Hodder & Stoughton, revised edition 1998).
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