Garsington Manor, in the village of
Garsington, near
Oxford, England, is a
Tudor building, best known as the former home of Lady
Ottoline Morrell. The manor was built on land once owned by the son of the poet
Geoffrey Chaucer, and at one time had the name "Chaucers". Lady Ottoline and her husband,
Philip Morrell[?], bought the
manor house[?] in
1914, at which time it was in a state of disrepair, having been in use as a farmhouse. They completely restored it, creating landscaped Italian-style
gardens, and it became a haven for their friends, including
D.H. Lawrence,
Siegfried Sassoon,
Lytton Strachey, and
Bertrand Russell. In 1916, they invited
conscientious objectors, including
Clive Bell, to come and work on the home farm for the duration of the war, so as to avoid prosecution. The Morrells moved out in
1928.
