Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale by Miranda Seymour

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The definitive biography of the Bloomsbury group’s gloriously eccentric patron, Lady Ottoline Morrell.

For decades, Ottoline Morrell was grossly misunderstood.  The artists and writers who benefited from her generous patronage and friendship helped to create the false and vicious image of a nymphomanical aristocrat with cultural aspirations. This landmark literary biography presents Morrell in an entirely new light, rightly setting her centre-stage as the brilliant and courageous lynchpin of the Bloomsbury group.  544pp