Editing Lady Ottoline Morrell (section)

== Later life ==
[[File:Garsington StMary MorrellMonument1938.JPG|thumb|left|Monument to Lady Ottoline Morrell by [[Eric Gill]] in St Mary's Church, [[Garsington]]]]

Later, Lady Ottoline remained a regular host to the adherents of the [[Bloomsbury Group]], in particular [[Virginia Woolf]], and to many other artists and authors, who included [[W. B. Yeats]], [[L. P. Hartley]], and [[T. S. Eliot]], and maintained an enduring friendship with Welsh painter [[Augustus John]]. She was an influential [[patron]] to many of them, and a valued friend, who nevertheless attracted understandable mockery, due to her combination of eccentric attire with an aristocratic manner, extreme shyness and a deep religious faith that set her apart from her times.

In 1912, Lady Ottoline was Vice President of The Eugenics Society, alongside writer and sexologist Henry Havelock Ellis, while Major Leonard Darwin, son of Charles Darwin, was President. 

Her work as a decorator, colourist, and garden designer remains undervalued, but it was for her great gift for friendship that she was mourned when she died in April 1938. She died from an experimental drug given by a doctor.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Thomasson, Anna|title=A Curious Friendship: The Story of a Bluestocking and a Bright Young Thing|year=2015|isbn=978-1-4472-4553-7|location=London|publisher=Macmillan|oclc=907936594}}</ref>

The novelist [[Henry Green]] wrote to [[Philip Morrell]] of "her love for all things true and beautiful which she had more than anyone ... no one can ever know the immeasurable good she did".<ref>[[Miranda Seymour]], ''Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale'', p. 416.</ref>

Monuments carved by [[Eric Gill]] are in [[St Winifred's Church, Holbeck]] and St Mary's Church, [[Garsington]].
A [[blue plaque]] in her honour was erected at her London home, 10 Gower Street, by the [[Greater London Council]], in 1986.<ref>{{cite web |title=MORRELL, LADY OTTOLINE (1873–1938) |url=https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/lady-ottoline-morrell/ |website=English Heritage |access-date=12 September 2022}}</ref>