Volume 40, Number 16 · October 7, 1993
The Hostess with the Mostest
By Noel Annan
Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale
by Miranda Seymour
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 450 pp., $30.00
There can scarcely be a book about the literary lions of London in Georgian times that does not mention Ottoline Morrell, and no country house was more famous in the First World War than Garsington, where she entertained them. The sister of a duke, she stood six feet high, her Venetian red hair towering above a long, muscular nose and blue-green eyes. She wore a vast hat and staggering creations of misty muslins or blazing brocades; she looked like an affectionate horse.
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