In this Book
- Garsington Revisited: The Legend of Lady Ottoline Morrell Brought Up-to-Date
- Book
- 2017
- Published by: Indiana University Press
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 ?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" / 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.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- pp. i-iv
- Interlude Hook ’em Horns
- pp. 8-10
- Interlude Stalked by the Dook
- pp. 19-20
- Chapter 3 Huntin', Shootn' & Fishn'
- pp. 21-27
- Interlude The Druce-Portland Case
- pp. 46-48
- Interlude The Centre of the World
- pp. 70-72
- Chapter 9 The Arch-Priest of Bloomsbury
- pp. 99-106
- Interlude The “Bloomsbury Group”
- pp. 107-108
- Chapter 10 Bertie Stays the Night
- pp. 109-125
- Chapter 11 Further Entanglements
- pp. 127-139
- Interlude Mixing Beethoven with Mozart
- pp. 140-142
- Chapter 12 News of the Scandal Spreads
- pp. 143-162
- Interlude A “Thumbs-up” From Michael Holroyd
- pp. 163-164
- Chapter 13 The Gathering Storm
- pp. 165-184
- Interlude My Introduction to Bloomsbury
- pp. 185-186
- Chapter 14 The Storm Clouds Break
- pp. 187-196
- Interlude Lunch with Duncan Grant
- pp. 197-198
- Chapter 16 Escape to the Country
- pp. 211-225
- Chapter 17 Sticking Pins into Ottoline
- pp. 227-250
- Interlude My First Glimpse of Garsington
- pp. 251-253
- Chapter 18 Biting the Hand That Fed Him
- pp. 254-271
- Interlude I See a Ghost
- pp. 272-273
- Chapter 19 The Worst Year of Her Life
- pp. 274-296
- Interlude A Brief Moment in the Limelight
- pp. 297-299
- Chapter 20 Bertie Goes to Gaol
- pp. 300-316
- Interlude The Men in Her Life
- pp. 317-319
- Chapter 21 Tiger, Tiger
- pp. 320-339
- Interlude A Visit to Hatfield House
- pp. 340-341
- Chapter 22 The Younger Brigade
- pp. 342-366
- Chapter 23 The Dearest Little Dolls’ House
- pp. 368-403
- Interlude My Strange Visit to Pamela Diamand
- pp. 404-406
- Acknowledgements
- pp. 408-410
- Bibliography
- pp. 411-414
- Key To End-notes
- p. 415