Contemporary Authors. Gale Research, 1962–2024, Numerous volumes.
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Bertrand Russell
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Standard Name: Russell, Bertrand
Used Form: Bertrand Arthur William, third Earl Russell
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| Family and Intimate relationships | T. S. Eliot | 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... |
| 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, 1975. 1: 68-9 |
| 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
). |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth von Arnim | 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). Usborne, Karen. "Elizabeth": The Author of Elizabeth and Her German Garden. Bodley Head, 1986. 48, 85 |
| 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... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Ottoline Morrell | LOM
and Bertrand Russell
became lovers: Russell was at this time a guest at the Morrells' London home and Philip Morrell
was away. Darroch, Sandra Jobson. Ottoline: The Life of Lady Ottoline Morrell. Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, 1975. 86-7 Russell, Bertrand. The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell: 1872-1914. Little, Brown, 1967. 314 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Antonia White | AW
began a flirtatious relationship with Bertrand Russell
, whom she met when she attended a lecture he gave. Dunn, Jane. Antonia White: A Life. Jonathan Cape, 1998. 103, 447n38 |
| 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, 1975. 1: 149 Moorehead, Caroline. Bertrand Russell: A Life. Sinclair-Stevenson, 1992. 334 |
| 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, 1975. 1: 151 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Ottoline Morrell | Shortly thereafter, however, Fry fell in love with Vanessa Bell
and denied any commitment to LOM
, while at the same time speaking hurtfully of her relationship with Russell
and of her character in general... |
| 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, 1975. 1: 168 |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Agnes Hamilton | One of Lee's beliefs, pronounced that evening, was: Patriotism . . . is the power to be ashamed of your country. Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape, 1944. 74 |
| Friends, Associates | Frances Cornford | Among friends entertained regularly or occasionally at Conduit Head were William Rothenstein
, Eric Gill
, Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
, Bertrand Russell
, and Rabindranath Tagore
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Timeline
29 October 1865: On the death of Palmerston, Lord Russell,...
National or international item
29 October 1865
On the death of Palmerston
, Lord Russell
, also a Liberal, became Prime Minister for the second time.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
115
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491
1890: Philosopher and logician E. E. Constance...
Women writers item
1890
Philosopher and logician E. E. Constance Jones
published Elements of Logic as a Science of Propositions, which advanced her theory about categorical propositions.
Cicero, Samantha, and Mary Ellen Waithe. “E. E. Constance Jones (1848-1922)”. Contemporary Women Philosophers, 1900-today, edited by Mary Ellen Waithe, Kluwer, 1995, pp. 25-49.
25-7, 36-46
Griffin, Nicholas, and Leslie Dema. Emails About E. E. Constance Jones to Leslie Dema. June 2004.
1900-13: Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead...
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1900-13
Bertrand Russell
and Alfred North Whitehead
published the three volumes of Principia Mathematica.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
From early summer 1915: Garsington Manor, near Oxford, the home of...
Building item
From early summer 1915
Garsington Manor, near Oxford, the home of Lady Ottoline
and Philip Morrell
, became a centre for many pacifists, conscientious objectors, and non-pacifist critics of the war.
Berkman, Joyce Avrech. Pacifism in England, 1914-1939. Yale University, 1967, http://U of A HSS.
23
Seymour, Miranda. Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1992.
223-4
1928: Members of the British Federation of University...
Building item
1928
Members of the British Federation of University Women (later known as the British Federation of Women Graduates
) established the Sybil Campbell Libraryfor the study of the expansion of the role of women in...
1931: The first British female academic philosopher,...
Women writers item
1931
The first British female academic philosopher, Susan Stebbing
, published A Modern Introduction to Logic, the first textbook to popularise Bertrand Russell
's and Alfred North Whitehead
's difficult new formal logic alongside the old Aristotelian variety.
Warnock, Mary, Baroness, editor. Women Philosophers. J. M. Dent, 1996.
93-4
Kersey, Ethel M. Women Philosophers: A Bio-Critical Source Book. Greenwood, 1989.
194-5
24 February 1934: The National Council for Civil Liberties...
National or international item
24 February 1934
The National Council for Civil Liberties
was founded by journalist Ronald Kidd
, who had witnessed the treatment of hunger marchers in London in November 1932.
Liberty: A Brief History. http://web.archive.org/web/20080807173131/http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/about/1-history/index.shtml.
Blondel, Nathalie. Mary Butts: Scenes from the Life. McPherson & Company, 1998.
443n8
22 May 1936: The Peace Pledge Union was founded by Canon...
National or international item
22 May 1936
The Peace Pledge Union
was founded by Canon Dick Sheppard
.
Ceadel, Martin. Pacifism in Britain, 1914-1945 : The Defining of a Faith. Clarendon, 1980, http://U of A HSS.
Appendix I
Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 1995.
354
Oakley, Ann. Man and Wife: Richard and Kay Titmuss: My Parents’ Early Years. HarperCollins, 1996.
69
10 December 1950: Bertrand Russell from Great Britain was awarded...
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10 December 1950
Bertrand Russell
from Great Britain was awarded this year's Nobel
Prize in Literature in recognition of his varied and significant writings in which he champions humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought.
The Nobel Foundation,. Nobel E-Museum.
Schlessinger, Bernard S., and June H. Schlessinger. The Who’s Who of Nobel Prize Winners, 1901-1995. 3rd ed., Oryx Press, 1996.
The Nobel Foundation,. Nobel E-Museum.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
2 February 2010
23 December 1954: The BBC broadcast a hard-hitting radio talk...
National or international item
23 December 1954
The BBC
broadcast a hard-hitting radio talk by Bertrand Russell
: Man's Peril, about the threat of nuclear war and the need for action to avoid it.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
23 December 2009
17 February 1958: CND, or the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament,...
Building item
17 February 1958
CND, or the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
, was founded at a public meeting in London; it held its first march that spring, at the Easter weekend.
Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon, 1996.
299
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
Texts
Russell, Dora, and Bertrand Russell. “Art and Education”. The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism, Allen and Unwin, 1920.
Russell, Bertrand. Out of this World. Editors Williams-Ellis, Amabel and Mably Owen, Blackie, 1972, 10 vols.
Russell, Bertrand. The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell: 1872-1914. Little, Brown, 1967.
Russell, Bertrand, and Dora Russell. The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism. Allen and Unwin, 1920.
Russell, Bertrand, and Dora Russell. The Prospects of Industrial Civilization. Allen and Unwin, 1923.