Lady Ottoline Morrell
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Lady Ottoline Violet Anne Morrell was an English aristocrat and society hostess. Her circle of friends included many authors, artists, sculptors and poets. She was a member of the Bloomsbury Group and
Morrell in 1902
Portrait of Lady Ottoline Morrell by Adolf de Meyer, c. 1912
Blue plaque, 10 Gower Street, London
Monument to Lady Ottoline Morrell by Eric Gill in St Mary's Church, Garsington
Lady Chatterley's Lover
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Lady Chatterley's Lover is the final novel by the English author D. H. Lawrence, first published privately in 1928, in Florence, Italy, and in 1929, in Paris, France. An unexpurgated edition was not p
Lady Ottoline Morrell
…modelling the character Lady Hermione after her. Morrell had a brief affair with her gardener, Lionel Gomme; Lawrence would use this in his 1928 novel Lady Chatterley's Lover. The hospitality offered by the Morrells was such that their guests had no suspicion that they were in financial difficulties. Many of them assumed…
One of the US "unexpurgated" editions (1959)
Translator Sei Itō (left) and his publisher Hisajirō Oyama (right) at the first Chatterley trial in Japan.