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Friends, Associates | Julia Strachey | Shortly after the wedding, Julia became the charge of Alys Russell
, a suffrage and temperance activist who was also the aunt of Ray (Costelloe) Strachey
, sister of writer Logan Pearsall Smith
and Mary Berenson |
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 |
Travel | Gertrude Stein | GS
, Alice Toklas
, Lytton Strachey
, and Bertrand Russell
were guests at Alfred North Whitehead
's home in Sarsen Land, Lockridge, when news of the German invasion of Belgium induced them to prolong their stay. Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday. 84-5 Brinnin, John Malcolm, and John Ashbery. The Third Rose: Gertrude Stein and her World. Addison-Wesley. 212, 215 |
Travel | Gertrude Stein | GS
then joined her brother Leo in Italy, where they spent the summer touring the Umbrian countryside. After returning to London, they accepted an invitation from Bernard Berenson
to spend a weekend with him at... |
Textual Production | May Sinclair | MS
published A Defence of Idealism, in which she regretted having to refute those whose work she greatly admired: Samuel Butler
, Henri Bergson
, William James
, Bertrand Russell
, and others. Boll, Theophilus E. M. Miss May Sinclair: Novelist: A Biographical and Critical Introduction. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 112, 258 |
Textual Production | May Sinclair | May Sinclair
published The New Idealism, in which she set out to study the works of contemporaries such as Bertrand Russell
, Alfred North Whitehead
, and others. Boll, Theophilus E. M. Miss May Sinclair: Novelist: A Biographical and Critical Introduction. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 304 Book Review Digest. H. W. Wilson. |
Reception | May Sinclair | Bertrand Russell
(after writing to MS
to let her know he was doing so) reviewed it for the Nation with what biographer Suzanne Raitt
calls acclaim. Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press. 42n1 |
politics | Ethel Sidgwick | The Congress, held from 28 April to 1 May, attracted 1,200 women from twelve countries, both warring and neutral, to discuss means of achieving peace. Others meeting with the delegates on the subsequent peace tour... |
Friends, Associates | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | During the Schützes' pacifist years it was only gradually that they began to find some support from like-minded people, like Bertrand Russell
and Ramsay MacDonald
(though GHS
felt the latter was a fair-weather pacifist), and... |
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... |
politics | Lady Margaret Sackville | 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... |
Travel | Dora Russell | Dora was scheduled to visit Russia with Bertrand Russell
. Just before their planned departure he was invited to join a Labour
delegation, and Dora travelled mainly on her own. While in Moscow she made... |
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... |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Dora Russell | Dora Black (later Russell)
met philosophers Bertrand Russell
and Jean Nicod
through her close friend the mathematician Dorothy Wrinch
. Russell, Dora. The Tamarisk Tree: My Quest for Liberty and Love. G. P. Putnam’s Sons. 1: 52 |
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