Virginia Woolf's Women by Vanessa Curtis

Author:Vanessa Curtis [Vanessa Curtis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780719815850
Publisher: Robert Hale
Published: 2014-08-01T16:00:00+00:00

Hermione is described as ‘bullying’ and as having a singsong voice. Her interest in books is ridiculed, as are her clothes, which are described as being ‘dirty dresses’ like those worn by an ‘old hag’. The fictional house featured in Women in Love is clearly based on Garsington. Ottoline was furious and at the same time desperately worried that there might be some truth in this unkind portrait. She at first tried to lay the blame at Frieda Lawrence’s door, but there was no evidence to suggest that Frieda had collaborated as closely with her husband on this book as she supposedly had on Sons and Lovers. Lawrence was, somewhat naïvely, surprised at Ottoline’s adverse reaction to his book. He had continued to eat her food and accept her gifts while he had been penning these hurtful descriptions. Eventually Philip Morrell went to Lawrence’s agent and threatened to bring legal action against any publisher who brought out the book, and Lawrence was unable to have it published in England until May 1921. The intimacy which in retrospect had proved to be one-sided, between Ottoline and D.H. Lawrence ended abruptly until an attempt at reconciliation was made some twelve years later.

Ottoline was often to attract satirists, and at the end of 1921, just after Women in Love had finally been published, another trusted friend, Aldous Huxley, revealed an unflattering portrait of her as Priscilla Wimbush in his new book, Crome Yellow. Priscilla had a

large square middle-aged face, with a massive projecting nose and little greenish eyes, the whole surmounted by a lofty and elaborate coiffure of a curiously improbable shade of orange.

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