Bertrand Russell

Some detail about the Union of Democratic Control is in order here because her membership of its General Council is at odds with the accepted image of LMS , and suggests that a side of...

During the last twenty years of her life, she became increasingly passionate about Irish politics and about her own Irish heritage. She closely followed news of the Easter Rising in Dublin, in 1916 and...

Gore-Booth and Roper described themselves as extreme pacifists. Their work for the No-Conscription Fellowship (which was founded in early 1915 following a letter written by Fenner Brockway in November 1914) included travelling the...

She also carefully considered the future of her relationship with Bertrand Russell . She observes in her memoir: I had no anxiety about allying myself with his political views or way of life. I was...

The name reflects a panic about national absence of efficiency, a panic aroused by experience in the Second South African War. The club lasted for about five years, meeting at a tavern and numbering among...

Dora and Bertrand Russell founded Beacon Hill , a progressive primary school. From 1932 to 1943, when she closed the school, DR was its chief administrator and instructor.

Members of the Union of Democratic Control also included Margaret Llewelyn Davies and Bertrand Russell . Helena M. Swanwick was a member of the Executive Committee, and LMS was one of twelve women besides her...

Initially, Russell and those to whom he showed the text (without revealing its collaborative nature) agreed that Morrell's section was the strongest. However, he later wrote that it was because of her that the work...

Although controversial in its views on progressive education, the book received praise from critics. The 1000 Transcript wrote that it had common sense and a freshness of viewpoint . . . . Hers is the...

Bertrand Russell and his wife Alys Russell , RS 's aunt, disapproved of the book and were worried that Ray's Cambridge friends would be dreadfully shocked. However, the book was not censured by...

Bertrand Russell exclaimed that it was one of the most exciting novels [he had] read in the English language. Many responses were inflected by gender. Frederick Rolfe (Baron Corvo) poetically asserted: It is doubtful...

KR 's poetry, which focusses on archetypal forms of being, is influenced by Swedenborg and the Neo-Platonists. She was also fascinated by the avant-garde movements of her era: Bloomsbury Humanism, Freud ianism, Wittgenstein 's and...

Formally and informally, Dora and Bertrand Russell exchanged ideas about politics, philosophy, and other cultural concerns throughout their relationship, and much of this ongoing exchange found its way into their writings.

Here Russell observes that children, like women and the proletariat, are an oppressed class. This text was informed partly by the end of her marriage to Bertrand Russell and their legal disputes over...

In this text the husband and wife team set out to capture the flavour of life at Portmeirion, at a time when a damaging hydro-electric scheme was proposed for the region.It is written in...