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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. 1: 68-9 |
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... |
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
). |
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... |
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 |
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... |
Travel | Dora Russell | Dora Black
and her future husband Bertrand Russell
studied and lectured in Peking. Russell, Dora. The Tamarisk Tree: My Quest for Liberty and Love. G. P. Putnam’s Sons. 1: 115, 147 |
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. |
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. 1: 149 Moorehead, Caroline. Bertrand Russell: A Life. Sinclair-Stevenson. 334 |
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 |
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. 1: 151 |
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. 1: 168 |
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 |
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