Across the Square

On a cold December day 1917, Lady Ottoline Morrell has crossed Bedford Square to the home of Millicent Fawcett to express her condolences for the loss of a beloved sister. As the patroness of the Bloomsbury Group, Ottoline’s vast circle of friends includes Prime Ministers and novelists, painters and philosophers Her world is tainted by the whiff of scandal, the whisper of notoriety. Millicent on the other hand has been unwavering in her dedication to the crusade for women’s suffrage. Each in their own way, Ottoline and Millicent have left an indelible legacy on our political and cultural landscape yet they have languished too long in the twilight of obscurity, overshadowed by others.