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Ottoline Morrellbiographical notes
She married Philip Morrell in 1902 and the marriage lasted for the rest of her life, even though like many members of the Bloomsbury Group, their relationship was far from conventional. They had one child, a daughter, Julian. She had affairs with Bertrand Russell and the painter Augustus John, as well as with Aldous Huxley's wife, Maria Nijs.
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Ottoline Morrell features in the history of the Bloomsbury Group largely as a hostess and patron of the arts. From 1908 onwards, she entertained a wide circle of political and literary celebrities at her Thursday evening gatherings in Bedford Square, and at her country retreat at Garsington Manor in Oxfordshire.
She was born Ottoline Violet Anne Cavendish Bentinck in 1873, acquiring the title of
'Lady' when her half-brother inherited the duchy of Portland in 1879, and the
family moved into Welbeck Abbey in Nottinghamshire. Ottoline was a cousin of
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, later to become queen to George VI. She was educated at home and at Somerville College, Oxford, where she studied politics and history.
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