Bertrand Russell

The full measure of her hearing loss, too, is differently assessed. Although Hignett asserts that she never fully lost her hearing and that her speech was almost totally unaffected, the Bloomsbury group and her associates...

She wrote later in her diary that her mind had been made up more by Bertrand Russell 's pamphlet Which Way to Peace? than by anything that Mumford had said.

MB was a pacifist who sympathised strongly with the position of conscientious objectors. Believing that conscription was a sign of the collective insanity that has come over the world, she supported her companion (later...

This book also addresses the importance of literacy throughout the world. It likens illiteracy to slavery: where slavery was criminal traffic in bodies, illiteracy is a traffic in the minds of men.MC

Among friends entertained regularly or occasionally at Conduit Head were William Rothenstein , Eric Gill , Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson , Bertrand Russell , and Rabindranath Tagore .

FC also developed friendships, although not close ones, with Walter de la Mare , Eric Gill , Bertrand Russell , Siegfried Sassoon , Ralph and Ursula Vaughan Williams, and Virginia Woolf .

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...

Besides the Ford sisters, other members of the UDC included founding member James Ramsay MacDonald , executive committee member Helena Swanwick , and Vernon Lee , who was a good friend of IOF 's sister...

MG 's correspondents included Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence , Alice Paul , Elizabeth Gurley Flynn , Elizabeth Robins , Helena Swanwick , Henry Nevinson , Havelock Ellis , John Galsworthy , Victor Gollancz , A. R. Orage

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...

One of Lee's beliefs, pronounced that evening, was: Patriotism . . . is the power to be ashamed of your country.MAH credits Lady Ottoline with holding the pacifist movement together; many meetings took...

Its success helped secure for future schools such high-profile speakers as Bertrand Russell , Hermann Hesse , Emily Greene Balch , Romain Rolland , Georges Duhamel , and Paul Birukoff (Tolstoy 's secretary and biographer).

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...

Lawless made a number of other friends, acquaintances, and admirers through her writing, including Margaret Oliphant , an early friend and critic, Rhoda Broughton , George Meredith , Aubrey de Vere , Mary Augusta Ward

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...