An Adlerian psychoanalytical writer and novelist.
Born in Kent, Bottome married Alban Ernan Forbes Dennis in 1917. She studied individual psychology under Alfred Alder in Vienna and started a school with her husband in Kitzbühel, Austria. Based on the teaching of languages, the school was intended to be a community as well as an educational laboratory to determine how psychology and educational theory could cure the ills of nations.
When in the UK, the couple divided their time between London and Cornwall, where they had moved in 1940. Their acquaintances included sculptors, potters and artists of the Penwith Society, including Peter Lanyon, Ben Nicolson, Barbara Hepworth as well as Daphne du Maurier. Bottome opened the first ever Penwith Society of Arts in Cornwall exhibition in the Public Hall in St Ives.
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