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Lady Ottoline Morrell was the foremost host of the Bloomsbury set, offering sustenance and friendship to Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, TS Eliot, DH Lawrence, Duncan Grant and her lover Bertrand Russell, to name but a few. This book is a revised and updated edition of the author's original biography of Ottoline first published in 1975 worldwide. It has been updated, with vignettes about her sources, including lunch at ?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" / Charleston with Duncan Grant, and a ship's tumbler of sherry with David Garnett as a prelude to discussing "skeletons in Ottoline's cupboard"). Her sources in Texas where she read more than 8,000 letters to Ottoline including 2,500 letters from Bertrand Russell, can now be located in new footnotes. Darroch remains as impressed as ever by Ottoline's courage and determination to forgo the comfortable life of an aristocrat to mix with – and champion – some of the 20th century's leading artists and writers. The definitive biography.

"MISTRESS OF Bertrand Russell, Augustus John, and Henry Lamb, model for D. H. Lawrence's eccentric Hermione Roddice of Women in Love, confidante of Lytton Strachey, close friend of H. H. Asquith, Maynard Keynes, Henry James, Aldous Huxley, and T. S. Eliot, friend of Virginia Woolf, Lady Ottoline Morrell (1873-1938) was one of the most controversial figures of the Bloomsbury era. Drawing on unpublished letters and censored portions of Ottoline's memoirs, here is a major first biography of "the high priestess of Bloomsbury—and the only book to tell the entire Ottoline story. Target of barbs and bitchery, highly coloured and ornate as one of the peacocks that followed her, the "great lady in Bedford Square" —this is the Ottoline legend as it comes down to us today, much of it through the pens of Bloomsbury. It is a legend that fueled a generation's gossip: They told stories of her parties at 44 Bedford Square and 10 Gower Street, of her bizarre country menage at Garsington. They labeled her a shallow society hostess and "lion hunter" for her efforts to foster young poets, writers and painters. But all the descriptions-both kind and cruel-hardly touch the real Ottoline. It has taken a young biographer, the fortunate first of many who sought to become Ottoline's chronicler, to be given access to previously unpublished letters and papers, including the original, unedited typescript of her oft-edited memoirs. It is the parts left out of these memoirs as eventually published that cast a special new light on her life—a life like a Catherine wheel exploding in the literary and artistic skies of England. Yet even the unedited memoirs do not fully portray this extraordinary woman. For they conclude in 1918, leaving the last twenty years of her life, significant years as Sandra Jobson Darroch was to learn, undocumented. Here, too, a wealth of previously unpublished material was made available to the author, chiefly the 7,000 letters written to Ottoline during her lifetime. Among these are the 2,500 letters from Bertrand Russell, covering the years 1911 to 1938, which along with Ottoline's 1,500 letters to Russell and his own diary of the years 1902 to 190S, shed great new light on their impassioned affair and on this long and important period in both their lives. And the years following 1918 brought a new generation of young writers and artists to Ottoline's drawing room-among them Stephen Spender, Peter Quennell and Cyril Connolly-and the correspondence, romantic entanglements and gossip continued. Where Ottoline has till now been best known for her amours, Sandra Jobson Darroch moves behind the image to present another Ottoline-a woman at once creator and victim of her own flamboyant reputation-a woman perennially in search of a very special man who could make up the deep deficiency of being she sensed in herself and that haunted her. The first biography of a towering spirit, OTTOLINE is scrupulously researched, an intimate and moving account of a unique woman who put her highly personal stamp on an entire era.”-Publisher.

Lady Ottoline Morrell was the foremost host of the Bloomsbury set, offering sustenance and friendship to Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, TS Eliot, DH Lawrence, Duncan Grant and her lover Bertrand Russell, to name but a few. This book is a revised and updated edition of the author's original biography of Ottoline first published in 1975 worldwide. It has been updated, with vignettes about her sources, including lunch at ?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" / Charleston with Duncan Grant, and a ship's tumbler of sherry with David Garnett as a prelude to discussing "skeletons in Ottoline's cupboard"). Her sources in Texas where she read more than 8,000 letters to Ottoline including 2,500 letters from Bertrand Russell, can now be located in new footnotes. Darroch remains as impressed as ever by Ottoline's courage and determination to forgo the comfortable life of an aristocrat to mix with – and champion – some of the 20th century's leading artists and writers. The definitive biography.

"I have only one agenda... privatisation." - NSW Premier Mike Baird 'Power for the People' tells the story of electricity in Sydney and Australia, and how it has influenced the development of our cities, and shaped our lives. The book begins in 1770 with the arrival of electricity aboard Captain Cook's Endeavour. It traces the trials and tribulations of a new and pervasive technology which transformed our nation. The author describes the selling of "the all-electric home" to the thousands of housewives who attended cookery demonstrations compered by "Radio Uncles" in the 1920s. It also shows how electricity liberated women from the back-breaking drudgery of housework, freeing them to have a life outside the home. And it paved the way for the sprawling suburbs of our modern cities. The book also introduces the reader to the shady underworld of the "boodler" and the "joke", revealing the seemingly endemic stain of corruption that has haunted the power industry to this day, confirming Lord Acton's famous dictum that "Power tends to Corrupt." During the course of her 20 years of research, Sandra Darroch has also monitored the sweeping developments that have revolutionised Australia's multi-billion-dollar electricity industry in revent times. 'Power for the People' brings the story of electricity up to the present-day controversies over privatisation of the "poles-and-wires" - and then takes a glimpse at what the future may hold at the cutting-edge of the energy sector in Australia.

"I have only one agenda... privatisation." - NSW Premier Mike Baird 'Power for the People' tells the story of electricity in Sydney and Australia, and how it has influenced the development of our cities, and shaped our lives. The book begins in 1770 with the arrival of electricity aboard Captain Cook's Endeavour. It traces the trials and tribulations of a new and pervasive technology which transformed our nation. The author describes the selling of "the all-electric home" to the thousands of housewives who attended cookery demonstrations compered by "Radio Uncles" in the 1920s. It also shows how electricity liberated women from the back-breaking drudgery of housework, freeing them to have a life outside the home. And it paved the way for the sprawling suburbs of our modern cities. The book also introduces the reader to the shady underworld of the "boodler" and the "joke", revealing the seemingly endemic stain of corruption that has haunted the power industry to this day, confirming Lord Acton's famous dictum that "Power tends to Corrupt." During the course of her 20 years of research, Sandra Darroch has also monitored the sweeping developments that have revolutionised Australia's multi-billion-dollar electricity industry in revent times. 'Power for the People' brings the story of electricity up to the present-day controversies over privatisation of the "poles-and-wires" - and then takes a glimpse at what the future may hold at the cutting-edge of the energy sector in Australia.

"How Lawrence Found His Lost Girl in Cornwall", is the title of the Introduction to this edition of Lawrence's sixth major novel. In it Sandra Jobson shows how Lawrence based part of his character Alvina Houghton on Katherine Mansfield, the New Zealand short-story writer. 'The Lost Girl' was in fact Lawrence's third novel, but was not published until 1920. It is his only novel to have won a literary prize. Originally called 'The Insurrection of Miss Houghton', it tells the story of Alvina Houghton, who fights for independence as a woman, but ends up falling in love with an Italian peasant form a mountain village. Will she fight again for independence? Sandra Jobson (Darroch) is the secretary of the DH Lawrence Society of Australia, and is the author of six books, including the first biography of Lady Ottoline Morrell, 'Ottoline: The Life of Lady Ottoline Morrell' (Chatto Windus 1975). An updated version of 'Ottoline', with a new Introduction by the author, will be published by The Svengali Press in 2017.