Lady Ottoline's album: Snapshots and portraits of her famous contemporaries (and of herself), photographed for the most part by Lady Ottoline Morrell ... of her daughter, Julian Vinogradoff

by Ottoline Violet Anne Cavendish-Bentinck Morrell

1976, Hardcover with dust jacket, First Edition, 117 pages

117 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1976

About the author

Lady Ottoline Violet Anne Morrell was an English aristocrat and society hostess. Her patronage was influential in artistic and intellectual circles, where she befriended writers including Aldous Huxley, Siegfried Sassoon, T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence, and artists including Mark Gertler, Dora Carrington and Gilbert Spencer.

Reviews

[Mir · Rating 3 out of 5]

I may reread this and enjoy it more in a different mood. It really is an album. You know those things people had before digital photography, with photos of friends and relatives stuck into pages? That. Paired with writing from all the famous people Ottoline hung out with.

Based on the description I was expecting something interesting from an aesthetic, photographic point of view, but frankly the photos aren't great, they're just interesting because of who is in them. Sorry, Lady O, your friends were just complimenting your skills because they were a bunch of suck-ups.



This collection is primarily of interest to those who want an intimate glimpse of the Bloomburys and other intellectual and/or rich folks of the period. If you're into that scene, it probably won't come as a shock that most of their letters etc are on the bitchy and petty side and they were all cheating on or with one another.

[Ellen · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a wonderful collection of photographs accompanied by excellent explanatory text. I've owned this one for a while and periodically find myself browsing through it, looking at the pictures and imagining what the conversations must have been like. A wonderful book for the Bloomsbury Group lover.

[Christine Parker · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting photos with some pertinent commentary. Some of these characters now quite obscure unless you are really interested in this period

[Karen-Leigh · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have read so many of her biographies and those of the people she surrounded herself with, that I really enjoyed this addition to my collection.

[AC · Rating 2 out of 5]

A few grainy photos