Left to right: Lady Ottoline Morrell, Maria Nys ( neither members of Bloomsbury ), Lytton Strachey, Duncan Grant, and Vanessa Bell.

With Lady Ottoline Morrell, Leonard Woolf and Harry Norton he took part in Ezra Pound's scheme to ' get Eliot out of the bank ' ( Eliot had a job in the international department of Lloyd's, a London bank, and well-meaning friends wanted him full-time writing poetry ).

Some members of the Bloomsbury Group: Left to right: Lady Ottoline Morrell, Mrs. Aldous Huxley, Lytton Strachey, Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell.

Lady Ottoline Morrell, 1902

Ottoline was granted the rank of a daughter of a duke with the courtesy title of " Lady " when her half-brother William succeeded to the Dukedom of Portland in 1879, at which time the family moved into Welbeck Abbey in Nottinghamshire.

Lady Ottoline was a descendant of Bess of Hardwick and as such had many aristocratic connections.

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 WB Yeats, LP Hartley, T. S.

Monument to Lady Ottoline Morrell by Eric Gill in St Mary's parish church, Garsington.

* Photograph of Lady Ottoline Morrell

* Pictures by Lady Ottoline Morrell

Further evidence of his passionate nature hinges on an affair he seems to have had with a famous English socialite, Lady Ottoline Morrell, beginning when they first met in July or August 1898.

She was a French Swiss girl whom he had met at Garsington Manor, the country house of Lady Ottoline Morrell, a Bloomsbury Group socialite with a penchant for artists and intellectuals.

According to some critics, the fling of Lady Ottoline Morrell with " Tiger ", a young stonemason who came to carve plinths for her garden statues, also influenced the story.

Left to right: Lady Ottoline Morrell, Maria Nys ( later Mrs. Aldous Huxley ), Lytton Strachey, Duncan Grant, and Vanessa Bell.

It was patronised by Lady Ottoline Morrell, with whom Fry had a fleeting romantic attachment.

Garsington Manor, in the village of Garsington, near Oxford, England, is a Tudor building, best known as the former home of Lady Ottoline Morrell, the Bloomsbury Group socialite.

Lady Ottoline and her husband, Philip Morrell, bought the manor house in 1914, at which time it was in a state of disrepair, having been in use as a farmhouse.

Aldous Huxley spent some time here before he wrote Crome Yellow, a book which contains a ridiculous character obviously intended as a caricature of Lady Ottoline Morrell ; she never forgave him.

Monument in St Mary's parish church to Lady Ottoline Morrell, carved by Eric Gill

It was the home of Lady Ottoline Morrell ( 1873 – 1938 ), and in St. Mary's parish church there is a monument to her carved by the sculptor and typeface designer Eric Gill.

A June 1924 photo of C. H. B. Kitchin by Lady Ottoline Morrell

A 1926 photo of Walter J. Turner by Lady Ottoline Morrell

There he met and befriended a number of literary intellectual figures, including Siegfried Sassoon, Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West, and Lady Ottoline Morrell ( the caricature of her in his book The Aesthetes ended their friendship ).

" Her circle of celebrity friends also included T. S. Eliot ; Gertrude Stein, who mentions Mirrlees in " Everybody's Autobiography "; Bertrand Russell ; and Lady Ottoline Morrell.

* Bodleian Library catalogue record ( finding aid ) of Lady Violet Bonham Carter's private papers

He married Lady Violet Pakenham ( 1914 – 2002 ), sister of Lord Longford, on 1 December 1934 at All Saints, Ennismore Gardens, Knightsbridge.

With Lady Violet, he traveled to the United States, India, Guatemala, Italy, and Greece.

Lady Violet Pakenham, daughter of the sixth Earl, was a writer and critic and the wife of the author Anthony Powell.

Longford's daughters were Lady Violet Pakenham, a writer and critic and the wife of the noted novelist Anthony Powell, Lady Mary Clive, author of Christmas at the Savages and other novels, Lady Pansy Lamb, novelist, biographer and wife of the painter Henry Lamb and Lady Julia Mount, mother of Sir Ferdinand Mount.

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# John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever ( 1886 – 1971 ) married Lady Violet Mary Elliot, of the Earls of Minto ( 1889 – 1965 ) in 1916.

Dorothy Violet Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington ( 30 July 1889 – 11 July 1956 ), styled Lady Gerald Wellesley between 1914 and 1943, was an English socialite, author, poet, and literary editor.

* Bodleian Library catalogue of Lady Violet Bonham Carter's private papers

** Lady Violet Mary Egerton ( born 11 November 2011 )

The characters include Earthly Maiden Lita, Dark Boy Sabata, the librarian named Lady, and Smith's granddaughter named Violet ( Sumire in Japan ).

Nancy Mitford said that Trefusis autobiography should be titled Here Lies Violet Trefusis, and partly based the character of Lady Montdore in Love in a Cold Climate on her.

Lady Milner exchanged letters with the British statesman Lord Milner during his time in South Africa and alongside Violet Markham she established the Victorian League in 1901 to promote Milner's imperial vision.

He is alleged to have had an affair with Violet, Marchioness of Granby and also alleged to be the father of Lady Violet Manners, legally the second daughter of her mother's husband Henry Manners, 8th Duke of Rutland.

Lady Violet, known as Letty, married firstly Hugo Charteris, Lord Elcho ( killed in action 1916 ) and was mother of two sons, David Charteris, 12th Earl of Wemyss and Lord Charteris of Amisfield.

Violet was billed as the “ World ’ s Champion Lady Buckjump Rider ” after the American tour.

Sir Maurice and Lady Violet Bonham-Carter, together with their son, Mark, are to be found amongst the early membership, which included many leading members of London society.

* Lady Violet Diana Louise Manners ( b. 18 August 1993 )

Accompanying George, who was by then chasing fast planes-in addition to his numerous women-Marthe flew everywhere: the United Kingdom ( she counted among her friends the Duke of Devonshire Edward Cavendish, the Duke of Sutherland George, Vita Sackville-West, Philip Sassoon, Enid Bagnold, Violet Trefusis, Lady Leslie and Rothschild family members ), Belgium, Italy ( where she met Benito Mussolini in 1936 ), the Italian colony of Tripolitania ( Libya ), Istanbul, the United States ( in 1934, as guests of Franklin D. Roosevelt and his wife Eleanor ), Raguse, Belgrade and Athens.

The son of John Egerton, 4th Earl of Ellesmere and Lady Violet Lambton, he was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge.