Lady Ottoline Morrell was a prominent figure among writers and artists of her day and is thought to have inspired characters in a number of novels, including Mrs Bidlake in Aldous Huxley's Point Counter Point; Hermione Roddice in D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love; Lady Caroline Bury in Graham Greene's It's a Battlefield; and Lady Sybilline Quarrell in Alan Bennett's Forty Years On. Some critics also consider her to have been the inspiration for Lawrence's Lady Chatterley. Huxley's first novel, Crome Yellow, is the story of a house party at a thinly-veiled version of Garsington Manor, Lady Ottoline's home.
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