Russell, Dora. The Tamarisk Tree: My Quest for Liberty and Love. G. P. Putnam’s Sons.
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politics | Lady Ottoline Morrell | 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... |
politics | Dora Russell | 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... |
politics | Beatrice Webb | 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... |
politics | Marghanita Laski | Though ML
held left-wing political opinions, she described herself as not a good socialist (meaning that she shaped her opinions for herself, not adhering to a party line). She cared more for the generally humanist... |
politics | Dora Russell | It featured such speakers as Vera Brittain
, Ethel Mannin
, Naomi Mitchison
, Marie Stopes
, Desmond MacCarthy
, Bertrand Russell
, and G. B. Shaw
. Papers given included DR
's Marriage and... |
Occupation | Dora Russell | 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. Russell, Dora. The Tamarisk Tree: My Quest for Liberty and Love. G. P. Putnam’s Sons. 1: 197 Commire, Anne, and Deborah Klezmer, editors. Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Yorkin Publications. 13: 587 |
Occupation | Lady Margaret Sackville | 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... |
Literary responses | Ethel Mannin | 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... |
Literary responses | Ray Strachey | 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. Strachey, Barbara. Remarkable Relations: The Story of the Pearsall Smith Women. Universe Books. 233 |
Literary responses | Ethel Lilian Voynich | Bertrand Russell
exclaimed that it was one of the most exciting novels [he had] read in the English language. MacHale, Desmond. The Life and Work of George Boole: A Prelude to the Digital Age. Cork University Press. 312 Ramm, Benjamin. The Irish novel that seduced the USSR. |
Literary responses | Lady Ottoline Morrell | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Dora Russell | Here Russell observes that children, like women and the proletariat, are an oppressed class. Commire, Anne, and Deborah Klezmer, editors. Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Yorkin Publications. 13: 587 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Amabel Williams-Ellis | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Kathleen Raine | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Dora Russell | 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. |
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