Morrell (Harriette Anne, née Wynter, 1845-1924). Manuscript journal, 1885 & 1890, autograph manuscript in blue or black ink on ruled paper, [178] pp. + blanks, 19 lines to the page, ownership inscription 'Harriette Anne Morrell, Brussels, March 29th 1885' to front free endpaper, Brussels stationer's ticket and pen-and-ink sketch of a man in profile to front pastedown, contemporary green half vellum, marbled sides, rubbed, 8vo (16.2 x 10.5 cm) (Qty: 1) Harriette Morrell was the mother of Philip, and consequently the mother-in-law of Lady Ottoline Morrell, who identified her as Henry James's inspiration for Adela Gereth in The Spoils of Poynton (see Rintoul, Dictionary of Real People and Places in Fiction, p. 687). An accomplished artist in her own right, she was the daughter of Philip Wynter (1793-1871), president of St John's College, Oxford and for a time university vice-chancellor; her husband was Frederick Parker Morrell (1839-1909), another St John's man and sometime mayor of Oxford. The journal records a leisured pre-Bloomsbury life of social engagements (and notably regular Catholic worship) at Lindfield (Sussex), Oxford and London and in Cornwall, and a European tour which takes in Brussels, Milan, Florence and Venice. In Florence Morrell enters a circle which includes the Duke and Duchess of Teck and lesser nobility such as Scottish baronet Sir Thomas Dick Lauder
Morrell (Harriette Anne, née Wynter, 1845-1924). Manuscript journal, 1885 & 1890, autograph manuscript in blue or black ink on ruled paper, [178] pp. + blanks, 19 lines to the page, ownership inscription 'Harriette Anne Morrell, Brussels, March 29th 1885' to front free endpaper, Brussels stationer's ticket and pen-and-ink sketch of a man in profile to front pastedown, contemporary green half vellum, marbled sides, rubbed, 8vo (16.2 x 10.5 cm) (Qty: 1) Harriette Morrell was the mother of Philip, and consequently the mother-in-law of Lady Ottoline Morrell, who identified her as Henry James's inspiration for Adela Gereth in The Spoils of Poynton (see Rintoul, Dictionary of Real People and Places in Fiction, p. 687). An accomplished artist in her own right, she was the daughter of Philip Wynter (1793-1871), president of St John's College, Oxford and for a time university vice-chancellor; her husband was Frederick Parker Morrell (1839-1909), another St John's man and sometime mayor of Oxford. The journal records a leisured pre-Bloomsbury life of social engagements (and notably regular Catholic worship) at Lindfield (Sussex), Oxford and London and in Cornwall, and a European tour which takes in Brussels, Milan, Florence and Venice. In Florence Morrell enters a circle which includes the Duke and Duchess of Teck and lesser nobility such as Scottish baronet Sir Thomas Dick Lauder
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