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Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale by Miranda Seymour.
'A seductive model of elegant scholarship.' Sue Gaisford, Independent
'A kind of blissography, teeming with bon mots.' Jilly Cooper, Sunday Times (Books of the Year)
'A sympathetic and surely definitive account, adding greatly to our knowledge of the people and…
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Miranda Seymour sits at the head of critical and biographical writing on the literary elite at the time of the war. This book about an outrageously flamboyant aristocrat who knew intimately the cream of literary and political society in Britain is a must. Ottoline was rumoured to have had a long-term dalliance with H. H. Asquith, the Prime Minister who took the empire into war. She cultivated (and was said to have had affairs with) almost all the great minds of the era. Miranda Seymour’s elegant writing gives us an unforgettable window on the world at a point of profound…
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