To some she was a lover, to others a confidante, and to many a mother substitute, but wherever the Bloomsbury group is mentioned, she has a place Before the First World War she ran a celebrated salon, emerging as a personality in her own right, and later offered solace, comfort and hospitality to artists and writers, undergraduates, conscientious objectors etc Her influence was enormous Her passionate relationship with Bertrand Russell, and her odd marriage to Philip Morrell are here examined, and this definitive book on the chatelaine of Bloomsbury offers a fascinating new perspective