Bertrand Russell

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Standard Name: Russell, Bertrand
Used Form: Bertrand Arthur William, third Earl Russell

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Cultural formation Dora Russell
Born to English parents and based in England all her life, she travelled frequently and was passionately committed to a range of international issues and movements. Her first husband was philosopher Bertrand Russell , and...
Family and Intimate relationships Dora Russell
Dora grew much closer to Bertrand Russell during the summer of 1919, after a casual meeting at which they discussed pacifism, politics, and matrimony.
Russell, Dora. The Tamarisk Tree: My Quest for Liberty and Love. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1975.
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They became lovers during a holiday at Lulworth Cove...
Family and Intimate relationships Dora Russell
By mid-1920 she and Russell were involved in a committed love relationship, though they had no plans for marriage (and he was still married to his first wife, Alys ).
Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth von Arnim
Maude Stanley introduced EA to her nephews: Francis Stanley (second Earl Russell, EA 's future husband), and his brother, Bertrand Russell (who became a lifelong friend).
Usborne, Karen. "Elizabeth": The Author of Elizabeth and Her German Garden. Bodley Head, 1986.
48, 85
Family and Intimate relationships Dora Russell
Dora and Bertrand Russell agreed to an open relationship, and both had extramarital affairs. While on her speaking tour in 1928, DR met Irish-American journalist Griffin Barry . He joined her in England shortly afterwards...
Family and Intimate relationships Lady Ottoline Morrell
LOM and Bertrand Russell became lovers: Russell was at this time a guest at the Morrells' London home and Philip Morrell was away.
Darroch, Sandra Jobson. Ottoline: The Life of Lady Ottoline Morrell. Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, 1975.
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Russell, Bertrand. The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell: 1872-1914. Little, Brown, 1967.
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Family and Intimate relationships Antonia White
AW began a flirtatious relationship with Bertrand Russell , whom she met when she attended a lecture he gave.
Dunn, Jane. Antonia White: A Life. Jonathan Cape, 1998.
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Family and Intimate relationships Dora Russell
Dora Black and Bertrand Russell married in London shortly before the birth of their first child.
Russell, Dora. The Tamarisk Tree: My Quest for Liberty and Love. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1975.
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Moorehead, Caroline. Bertrand Russell: A Life. Sinclair-Stevenson, 1992.
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Family and Intimate relationships Dora Russell
DR gave birth to John Conrad , the first of her two children with Bertrand Russell .
Russell, Dora. The Tamarisk Tree: My Quest for Liberty and Love. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1975.
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Family and Intimate relationships Lady Ottoline Morrell
Shortly thereafter, however, Fry fell in love with Vanessa Bell and denied any commitment to LOM , while at the same time speaking hurtfully of her relationship with Russell and of her character in general...
Family and Intimate relationships Dora Russell
DR delivered Katharine Jane , her second and last child with Bertrand Russell .
Russell, Dora. The Tamarisk Tree: My Quest for Liberty and Love. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1975.
1: 168
Family and Intimate relationships Dora Russell
Dora and Bertrand Russell were divorced; they had been separated since 1932.
Contemporary Authors. Gale Research, 1962–2024, Numerous volumes.
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Family and Intimate relationships T. S. Eliot
Bertrand Russell offered them a place to live,.but then embarked on a romantic relationship with Vivien which lasted until they actually became lovers, after which it collapsed. TSE , thinks biographer Peter Ackroyd , may...
Friends, Associates Vernon Lee
Back in Italy after the end of the First World War, VL continued to read widely. She returned to Dante , Shakespeare , and Goethe . She introduced herself to newer writings on philosophy, science...
Friends, Associates Mary Gawthorpe

Timeline

29 October 1865: On the death of Palmerston, Lord Russell,...

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29 October 1865

On the death of Palmerston , Lord Russell , also a Liberal, became Prime Minister for the second time.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491

1890: Philosopher and logician E. E. Constance...

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1890

Philosopher and logician E. E. Constance Jones published Elements of Logic as a Science of Propositions, which advanced her theory about categorical propositions.
Cicero, Samantha, and Mary Ellen Waithe. “E. E. Constance Jones (1848-1922)”. Contemporary Women Philosophers, 1900-today, edited by Mary Ellen Waithe, Kluwer, 1995, pp. 25-49.
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Griffin, Nicholas, and Leslie Dema. Emails About E. E. Constance Jones to Leslie Dema. June 2004.

1900-13: Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead...

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1900-13

Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead published the three volumes of Principia Mathematica.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.

From early summer 1915: Garsington Manor, near Oxford, the home of...

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From early summer 1915

Garsington Manor, near Oxford, the home of Lady Ottoline and Philip Morrell , became a centre for many pacifists, conscientious objectors, and non-pacifist critics of the war.
Berkman, Joyce Avrech. Pacifism in England, 1914-1939. Yale University, 1967, http://U of A HSS.
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Seymour, Miranda. Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1992.
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1928: Members of the British Federation of University...

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1928

Members of the British Federation of University Women (later known as the British Federation of Women Graduates ) established the Sybil Campbell Libraryfor the study of the expansion of the role of women in...

1931: The first British female academic philosopher,...

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1931

The first British female academic philosopher, Susan Stebbing , published A Modern Introduction to Logic, the first textbook to popularise Bertrand Russell 's and Alfred North Whitehead 's difficult new formal logic alongside the old Aristotelian variety.
Warnock, Mary, Baroness, editor. Women Philosophers. J. M. Dent, 1996.
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Kersey, Ethel M. Women Philosophers: A Bio-Critical Source Book. Greenwood, 1989.
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24 February 1934: The National Council for Civil Liberties...

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24 February 1934

The National Council for Civil Liberties was founded by journalist Ronald Kidd , who had witnessed the treatment of hunger marchers in London in November 1932.
Liberty: A Brief History. http://web.archive.org/web/20080807173131/http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/about/1-history/index.shtml.
Blondel, Nathalie. Mary Butts: Scenes from the Life. McPherson & Company, 1998.
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22 May 1936: The Peace Pledge Union was founded by Canon...

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22 May 1936

The Peace Pledge Union was founded by Canon Dick Sheppard .
Ceadel, Martin. Pacifism in Britain, 1914-1945 : The Defining of a Faith. Clarendon, 1980, http://U of A HSS.
Appendix I
Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 1995.
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Oakley, Ann. Man and Wife: Richard and Kay Titmuss: My Parents’ Early Years. HarperCollins, 1996.
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10 December 1950: Bertrand Russell from Great Britain was awarded...

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10 December 1950

Bertrand Russell from Great Britain was awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Literature in recognition of his varied and significant writings in which he champions humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought.
The Nobel Foundation,. Nobel E-Museum.
Schlessinger, Bernard S., and June H. Schlessinger. The Who’s Who of Nobel Prize Winners, 1901-1995. 3rd ed., Oryx Press, 1996.
The Nobel Foundation,. Nobel E-Museum.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
2 February 2010

23 December 1954: The BBC broadcast a hard-hitting radio talk...

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23 December 1954

The BBC broadcast a hard-hitting radio talk by Bertrand Russell : Man's Peril, about the threat of nuclear war and the need for action to avoid it.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
23 December 2009

17 February 1958: CND, or the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament,...

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17 February 1958

CND, or the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament , was founded at a public meeting in London; it held its first march that spring, at the Easter weekend.
Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon, 1996.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.

Texts

Russell, Dora, and Bertrand Russell. “Art and Education”. The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism, Allen and Unwin, 1920.
Russell, Bertrand. Out of this World. Editors Williams-Ellis, Amabel and Mably Owen, Blackie, 1972, 10 vols.
Russell, Bertrand. The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell: 1872-1914. Little, Brown, 1967.
Russell, Bertrand, and Dora Russell. The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism. Allen and Unwin, 1920.
Russell, Bertrand, and Dora Russell. The Prospects of Industrial Civilization. Allen and Unwin, 1923.