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Lady Ottoline Morrell papers
No full textLady Ottoline Morrell (1873-1938) was a British-born literary hostess of the World War I era. Her group of friends, including D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forester, T. S. Eliot, Bertrand Russell, Aldous Huxley, H. G. Wells, Siegfried Sassoon, and Virginia Woolf, was known as the Bloomsbury Group. They often met at one of the Morrell homes at Bedford Square, Gower Street, or the country home at Garsington. The collection includes Lady Morrell's correspondence to Siegfried Sassoon, publications documenting her literary interests and photographs
“‘Hanging up looking-glasses at odd corners’: The Multiple Portraits of Lady Ottoline Morrell (1873- 1938).”
No full textThis book chapter develops from my line of research on visual and literary portraiture to illuminate Lady Ottoline Morrell's
experiments with self-representation through a gender and class analysis. Includes discussion of visual, literary and
filmic portrayals of Ottoline
Hope Mirrlees papers
No full textHope Mirrlees (1887-1978) was an author of novels, poems, and translations. However, she is most remembered for her circle of literary friends, which included T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and Lady Ottoline Morrell. She published two novels, Lud-in-the-Mist and Counterplot, and a book of poetry, Moods and Tensions: Poems. She began, but never completed, a biography of seventeenth-century British antiquarian Sir Robert Bruce Cotton; part of this was published as A Fly in Amber in 1962. With Jane Harrison, she produced two translations of Russian literature, The Life of the Archpriest Avvakum by Himself and The Book of the Bear. Her papers consist solely of correspondence; significant correspondents include T. S. Eliot, Ottoline Morrell, Virginia Woolf, and Leonard Woolf
A Lady, Her Philosopher and a Contradiction
No full textNineteen eleven was a tumultuous year for Bertrand Russell, both personally and academically. The intense scholarly activity of 1911 that resulted in an impressive set of diverse academic publications and manuscripts was accompanied by a number of personal entanglements that were equally intense for Russell. Two of these relationships would prove to be especially strained. Late Wednesday afternoon, 18 October 1911, Russell met Ludwig Wittgenstein for the first time. As we know from the numerous accounts available on their relationship, the exchanges between Russell and Wittgenstein were emotionally charged and not always cordial. However, in 1911 a second relationship flourished that would prove equally significant for Russell. The aristocratic English philosopher fell in love with Lady Ottoline Morrell.
This relationship would eventually generate a correspondence in excess of 3,400 letters, telegrams and postcards. My paper is an assessment of the impact of Morrell on Russell's thought at the time he completed his classic Problems of Philosophy. In particular, I shall attempt to accomplish two tasks in this paper:
(a) In the first place, I shall show that Russell's 1911 view of philosophy appears to be contradictory, especially in regard to his conception of the Self.
(b) In the second place, I shall consider the nature and extent of Morrell's influence on Russell's 1911 view of philosophy and suggest that Lady Ottoline has more than a benign influence on Russell's 1911 understanding of the Self
Dorothy Brett’s Umbrellas (1917)
No full textThis brief article examines the painting titled Umbrellas, painted in 1917 by the Hon. Dorothy Brett. The painting depicts the world of talented individuals, composed of artists, writers and intellectuals, who used to gather at Garsington, the country home of Lady Ottoline Morrell. Although primarily an animated portrait of people Brett knew well, the painting is artfully structured around the abstract shapes created by the umbrellas, which wheel about and help frame the sitters. Ottoline presides at the centre, and opposite her is in the bottom left of the painting, is Aldous Huxley. Also depicted are Lytton Strachey, Brett herself, Julian Morrell, Katherine Mansfield and John Middleton Murry.</p
Did Russell experience an epiphany in 1911?
No full textBertrand Russell’s conception of philosophy evolved dramatically in 1911 — the year he fell in love with Lady Ottoline Morrell. For many years Russell had been an ardent advocate of the view that philosophers ought to look for truths that are certain. The co-author of Principia Mathematica altered his commitment to certainty in philosophy in 1911. An analysis of his published views and correspondence from this time strongly suggests that the radical transformation was induced by an epiphany brought about by his emotional entanglement with his lover
Mentioned in Dispatches: Frank Prewett and the The Great War
No full textHistorian and author Professor Joy Porter, Professor of Indigenous & Environmental History and Leverhulme Major Research Fellow at the University of Hull, talks about her recent book looking at the life of Canadian war poet Frank Prewett. Prewett is a relatively unknown poet, he served on the Western Front ans suffered from shellshock. While recovering at Lennel Auxiliary Hospital, he met Siegfried Sassoon, who introduced him to Lady Ottoline Morrell and he stayed at Garsington, her estate, while he awaited repatriation to Canada. Joy is the Principal Investigator of the Treatied Spaces: Research Group and an interdisciplinary researcher and teacher of Indigenous history in relation to the environment
Mentioned in Dispatches: Frank Prewett and the The Great War
No full textHistorian and author Professor Joy Porter, Professor of Indigenous & Environmental History and Leverhulme Major Research Fellow at the University of Hull, talks about her recent book looking at the life of Canadian war poet Frank Prewett. Prewett is a relatively unknown poet, he served on the Western Front ans suffered from shellshock. While recovering at Lennel Auxiliary Hospital, he met Siegfried Sassoon, who introduced him to Lady Ottoline Morrell and he stayed at Garsington, her estate, while he awaited repatriation to Canada. Joy is the Principal Investigator of the Treatied Spaces: Research Group and an interdisciplinary researcher and teacher of Indigenous history in relation to the environment
