Ottoline Bentinck, the daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Bentinck, heir to the Duke of Portland, was born in 1873. Educated at home and at Somerville College, Oxford, where she studied politics and history. In 1902 she married Philip Morrell, who became a Liberal MP following the 1906 General Election.

In 1915 she began organizing meetings at her home at Garsington Manor for important political and literary figures. John Middleton Murry, D. H. Lawrence, Bertrand Russell, Aldous Huxley, Leonard Woolf and Virginia Woolf all became close friends. She therefore was distressed when she was caricatured in both Huxley's Crome Yellow (1921) and Lawrence's Women in Love (1921).

Ottoline Morrell died in 1938. Her writings are collected in Ottoline (1963) and Ottoline at Garsington (1974).

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