Lady Ottoline Morrell Love", for Lady Caroline Bury in Graham Greene's "It's a Battlefield", and for Lady Sybilline Quarrell in Alan Bennett's "Forty Years On". "The Coming Back" (1933), another novel which portrays her, was written by Constance Malleson, one of Ottoline's many rivals for the affection of Bertrand Russell. Some critics consider her the inspiration for Lawrence's Lady Chatterley. Huxley's "roman à clef", "Crome Yellow" depicts the life at a thinly-veiled Garsington, with a caricature of Lady Ottoline Morrell for which she never forgave him. "In Confidence" a short story by Katherine Mansfield portrays the "wits of Garsington" some four years in
Chatterley Whitfield company ran into serious financial difficulties. The heavy capital expenditure of the earlier years and a recession in trade began to take their effect. To overcome this a policy of rigorous economy was introduced and numerous small pits were closed. This policy was strongly opposed by Mr Charles J. Homer and he resigned over the issue. However, as the economies began to take effect and the output of coal increased, the company was able to weather the storm. Unfortunately, just as the company was recovering, it was beset by further misfortunes. In 1880, the oil distillery at Chatterley was destroyed