Lady Ottoline Morrell

A brief correspondence resulting in very little has come and gone. Maybe its still here but it lost its initial spark. To please more myself then the correspondent, I searched for photographs to illustrate our conversation about D.H. Lawrence and Balzac. The Met's database produced not one photograph of Balzac or D.H. Lawrence and all the Library of Congress could offer were caricatures of Balzac which wasn't what I was going for at all. Instead, I found a striking portrait by Aldolph de Meyer of the Lady Ottoline Morrell taken around 1912. I wanted to send this beauty to my pen pal but I felt it wasn't appropriate to our conversation. But I was wrong. A friend and potential patron of D.H. Lawrence, Lady Ottoline Morrell was the prototype for Lady Chatterley.