Lady Ottoline Morrell

Lady Ottoline Morrell
Lady Ottoline Morrell, 1902
Born
Ottoline Violet Anne Cavendish-Bentinck

(1873-06-16)16 June 1873
Died21 April 1938(1938-04-21) (aged 64)
London, England
NationalityBritish
EducationSomerville College, Oxford
Occupation(s)Aristocrat, society hostess and patron
SpousePhilip Morrell
Portrait of Lady Ottoline Morrell by Adolf de Meyer, c. 1912

Lady Ottoline Violet Anne Morrell (16 June 1873 – 21 April 1938) was an English aristocrat and society hostess. Her patronage was influential in artistic and intellectual circles, where she befriended writers including Aldous Huxley, Siegfried Sassoon, T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence, and artists including Mark Gertler, Dora Carrington and Gilbert Spencer.


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