Lady ottoline morrell biography of martin luther

Primary Sources

(1) Virginia Woolf, Old Bloomsbury (c. )

When indeed one remembers that drawing room full of people, the pale yellows and pinks of the brocades, the Italian chairs, the Persian rugs, the embroideries, the tassels, the scent, the pomegranates, the pugs, the pot-pourri and Ottoline bearing down upon one from afar in her white shawl with the great scarlet flowers on it and sweeping one away out of the large room and the crowd into a little room with her alone, where she plied one with questions that were so intimate and so intense I think my excitement may be excused.

(2) Hermione Lee, Virginia Woolf()

In , Ottoline seemed to her a "fancy-dress" character, an alluring, ridiculous phenomenon. Lady Ottoline, then thirty-six, was unhappily married to Philip Morrell, a Liberal MP. She had a three-year-old daughter, Julian (the survivor of twins), and since she had been turning herself into a famous hostess for writers and artists at 4

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Philip Morrell, the son of Frederick Morrell and Harriet Wynter, was born on 4th June After an education at Eton College and Balliol College. After leaving the University of Oxford Morrell became a member of the firm of solicitors, Philpot and Morrell.

In , Morrell saw Ottoline Cavendish-Bentinck while "cycling to college dressed all in white with her red hair blazing". At the time Ottoline was studying political economy and långnovell history as an out-student at Somerville College. At first she rejected his advances. As one biographer pointed out: "Ottoline was still determined to find her father figure, and this solicitor, however charming and friendly, seemed too young."

Morrell pursued Ottoline for two years. In letter to him she revealed grave doubts about the physical side of their relationship. However, she was willing to have a relationship with him "based on affection and trust rather than passion." They were eventually married

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Do not look to understand what an editor-at-large does in the documentary, "The Gospel According to André." Not in general or at Vogue magazine in particular. André Leon Talley was born in in the slums of Durham, North Carolina, to march in the fashion parade of New York and Paris.

Talley credits his grandmother with raising him right, giving him morals and teaching him to withstand the blows of racism, body shaming and homophobia in the wider world. By taking him to church every Sunday, she also showed him a fashion show, all those women in their hats and finest Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes. 

He dedicated himself to studying French, led by Julia Child on television. When he got to the runways of Paris, he confidently conversed with designers for the magazines he wrote for, such as Warhol's Interview. He was inspired by the great British Lady, Ottoline Morrell. He looked to Martin Luther King for freedom – and for that white shirt. He worked for Diana Vreeland at the Metropolitan