Garsington revisited : the legend of Lady Ottoline Morrell brough up-to-date /

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 biogr...

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Main Author: Darroch, Sandra Jobson (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Herts, England : John Libbey Publishing Ltd., 2017
Edition:1st ed
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • GARSINGTON REVISITED
  • Dedication
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • CONTENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • Prelude A Blow-in From the Colonies
  • Chapter 1 THE LEGEND OF OTTOLINE
  • Interlude Hook 'em Horns
  • Chapter 2 THE DAUGHTER OF A THOUSAND EARLS
  • Interlude Stalked by the Dook
  • Chapter 3 HUNT'N, SHOOT'N &amp
  • FISH'N
  • Picture Spread The Early Men in Her Life
  • Chapter 4 THE BUTTERFLY SPREADS HER WINGS
  • Interlude The Druce-Portland Case
  • Chapter 5 TALL, DARK AND HANDSOME, BUT NO MR D'ARCY
  • Picture Spread On Honeymoon
  • Chapter 6 MARY FOTHERINGHAM: OTTOLINE'S FIRST APPEARANCE IN PRINT
  • Interlude The Centre of the World
  • Chapter 7 OTTOLINE LAUNCHES HERSELF ON THE SEA OF LONDON
  • Interlude The Hostess with the Mostest
  • Chapter 8 THE GREAT LADY OF BEDFORD SQUARE
  • Picture Spread 44 Bedford Square
  • Chapter 9 THE ARCH-PRIEST OF BLOOMSBURY
  • Interlude The "Bloomsbury Group"
  • Chapter 10 BERTIE STAYS THE NIGHT
  • Interlude A Lamb in Wolf's Clothing
  • Chapter 11 FURTHER ENTANGLEMENTS
  • Interlude Mixing Beethoven with Mozart
  • Chapter 12 NEWS OF THE SCANDAL SPREADS
  • Interlude A "Thumbs-up" From Michael Holroyd
  • Chapter 13 THE GATHERING STORM
  • Interlude My Introduction to Bloomsbury
  • Chapter 14 THE STORM CLOUDS BREAK
  • Interlude Lunch with Duncan Grant
  • Chapter 15 THE WORKING-CLASS LAD FROM NOTTINGHAM
  • Interlude "Why Don't You Look Into Lawrence?"
  • Chapter 16 ESCAPE TO THE COUNTRY
  • Picture Spread At Garsington
  • Chapter 17 STICKING PINS INTO OTTOLINE
  • Interlude My First Glimpse of Garsington
  • Chapter 18 BITING THE HAND THAT FED HIM
  • Interlude I See a Ghost
  • Chapter 19 THE WORST YEAR OF HER LIFE
  • Interlude A Brief Moment in the Limelight
  • Chapter 20 BERTIE GOES TO GAOL
  • Interlude The Men in Her Life
  • Chapter 21 TIGER, TIGER
  • Interlude A Visit to Hatfield House
  • Chapter 22 THE YOUNGER BRIGADE
  • Picture Spread 10 Gower Street
  • Chapter 23 THE DEAREST LITTLE DOLLS' HOUSE
  • Interlude My Strange Visit to Pamela Diamand
  • Appendix: "The Lady and the Pug"
  • Acknowledgements
  • Bibliography
  • Key To End-notes
  • End-notes
  • Index