Editing Lady Ottoline Morrell (section)

==Literary legacy==
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Morrell wrote two volumes of memoirs,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Morrell |first1=Ottoline |editor1-last=Gathorn-Hardy |editor1-first=Robert |title=Ottoline: The early memoirs of Lady Ottoline Morrell |date=1963 |publisher=Faber and Faber |location=London}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Morrell |first1=Ottoline |editor1-last=Gathorne-Hardy |editor1-first=Robert |title=Ottoline at Garsington: Memoirs of Lady Ottoline Morrell 1915-1918 |date=1975 |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf |location=New York |isbn=0-394-49636-1}}</ref> but these were edited and revised after her death. She also maintained detailed journals, over a period of 20 years, which remain unpublished. But perhaps Lady Ottoline's most interesting literary legacy is the wealth of representations of her that appear in [[20th-century literature]].

She was the inspiration for Mrs Bidlake in [[Aldous Huxley]]'s ''[[Point Counter Point]]'', for Hermione Roddice in [[D. H. Lawrence]]'s ''[[Women in Love]]'',<ref>{{cite book |last1=Amos |first1=William |title=The originals: Who's really who in fiction |date=1985 |publisher=Sphere |location=London |pages=441–442}}</ref> for Lady Caroline Bury in [[Graham Greene (writer)|Graham Greene]]'s ''[[It's a Battlefield]]'',<ref>{{cite book |last1=Amos |first1=William |title=The originals: Who's really who in fiction |date=1985 |publisher=Sphere |location=London |page=80}}</ref> and for Lady Sybilline Quarrell in [[Alan Bennett]]'s ''[[Forty Years On (play)|Forty Years On]]''. ''The Coming Back'' (1933), another novel which portrays her, was written by [[Lady Constance Malleson|Constance Malleson]], one of Ottoline's many rivals for the affection of [[Bertrand Russell]], as was ''Pugs and Peacocks'' (1921) by Gabriel Cannan. Some critics consider her the inspiration for Lawrence's [[Lady Chatterley]].<ref>Kennedy, Maev (10 October 2006). [https://www.theguardian.com/uk_news/story/0,,1891481,00.html "The real Lady Chatterley: society hostess loved and parodied by Bloomsbury group"], ''[[The Guardian]]''. Retrieved December 30, 2022.</ref>

Huxley's ''[[roman à clef]]'' ''[[Crome Yellow]]'' depicts the life at a thinly veiled [[Garsington Manor|Garsington]], with a caricature of Lady Ottoline Morrell for which she never forgave him.<ref>Bartłomiej Biegajło, ''Totalitarian (In)Experience in Literary Works and Their Translations'', Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2018, [https://books.google.com/books?id=h_N0DwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Crome+Yellow%22+Garsington&pg=PA22 p.22]</ref> ''In Confidence,'' a short story by [[Katherine Mansfield]], portrays the "wits of Garsington" some four years in advance of ''Crome Yellow'', and with more wit than Huxley, according to Mansfield's biographer Antony Alpers.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Alpers |first1=Antony |title=The life of Katherine Mansfield |date=1980 |publisher=Jonathan Cape |location=London |isbn=0-224-01625-3 |page=211}}</ref> Published in ''[[The New Age]]'' of 24 May 1917, it was not reprinted until 1984 in Alpers' collection of her short stories.