Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale
Miranda Seymour
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Description for Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale
Paperback. Augustus John, T S Eliot, D H Lawrence, Lytton Strachey, Virginia Woolf and W B Yeats enjoyed Ottoline Morrell hospitality and she was Bertrand Russell's mistress for many years. This biography reveals Morrell, London's leading literary hostess during the first three decades of the 20th century. Num Pages: 616 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; BGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 136 x 49. Weight in Grams: 744.
Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale by Miranda Seymour.
'A seductive model of elegant scholarship.' Sue Gaisford, Independent
'A kind of blissography, teeming with bon mots.' Jilly Cooper, Sunday Times (Books of the Year)
'A sympathetic and surely definitive account, adding greatly to our knowledge of the people and the period.' Claire Tomalin, Independent on Sunday
This biography reveals Ottoline Morrell, London's leading literary hostess during the first three decades of the 20th century. Augustus John, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, Lytton Strachey, Virginia Woolf and W.B. Yeats enjoyed her hospitality and she was Bertrand Russell's ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
616
Condition
New
Number of Pages
616
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571243105
SKU
V9780571243105
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About Miranda Seymour
Miranda Seymour, celebrated both as a novelist and a biographer, has been a visiting professor at Nottingham Trent University, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. She is the author of five acclaimed biographies: A Ring Of Conspirators, an innovative study of Henry James and his literary ... Read more
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