Bertrand Russell

On 10 May Germany had invaded Holland and Belgium. In the event of an invasion of England, they could indeed expect a terrible personal fate, on account of their anti-war politics, Leonard's anti-war career and...

AWE and Mably Owen jointly edited the first volume of Out of This World: An Anthology of Science Fiction, with a foreword by Bertrand Russell .

Until a fire destroyed it in December 1951, the Williams-Ellises lived mainly at his family home, Plâs Brondanw in Portmeirion, North Wales, the village which Clough was recreating in the Italianate style. Guests at...

AWE 's friends and associates included Edith Sitwell , whose poems she often published in The Spectator; Storm Jameson , a political mentor as well as a creative advisor; Bertrand and Dora Russell

Her political activities kept AWE at the centre of London's socially-conscious literary circles. Guests at The Well of Loneliness tea-party included Virginia Woolf , Rose Macaulay , Vita Sackville-West , G. B. Shaw , and...

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...

AW began a flirtatious relationship with Bertrand Russell , whom she met when she attended a lecture he gave.

RW 's contributions to collections and anthologies include several essays on feminist topics such as Women as Brainworkers in Women and the Labour Party (1918), Woman as Artist and Thinker in Woman's Coming of Age...

Other chapters in the book include Havelock Ellis 's The Family and Bertrand Russell 's Science.

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...

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...

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).

Francis's brother, Bertrand Russell , lived with them for a short while before he was imprisoned for engaging in pacifist journalism.

On her return to London, EA found that her husband's smear campaign had effectively alienated her from her established social set. She responded by cultivating a friendship with a younger man, Alexander Stuart Frere-Reeves

She played with the epistolary form at several points throughout her writing career. She employed the form in Christine (1917), as well as in several unpublished experiments. For these experiments she recruited male writers such...