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 CHAPTER 3
Alys was called names by the elders at Pembroke Lodge: "She was no lady, a baby snatcher, a low class adventuress, a designing female taking advantage" of young Bertrand’s inexperience, "a person incapable of all finer feelings, a woman whose vulgarity would perpetually" put him to shame (Russell 1: 82).
Alys is described as a scarcely possible distant heaven with all the indifference that goes with it (Russell 1: 97).
Alys and Bertrand did not know that the Social Democrats were considered very wicked in Berlin and had unknowingly mentioned to the ambassador that they had met some of the Social Democrats.
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 Hannah Whitall Smith Summary
Smith later became the director of the evangelism division of the WCTU, a training ground for women evangelists who were denied a public platform by their denominations.
The Smiths previous contacts with William and Henry James, Walt Whitman, family members closely connected with Johns Hopkins and other American colleges and universities, along with a circle of social contacts associated with the marriages of her children, placed the Smith family in regular contact with a celebrated circle of artists and intelligentsia.
It was in England that Alys Pearsall Smith met and married the philosopher Bertrand Russell.
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 Logan Pearsall Smith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Logan Pearsall Smith (October 18, 1865 – March 2, 1946) was an American essayist and critic.
Smith was born in Millville, New Jersey and settled in London.
The son of the prominent Quakers Robert Pearsall Smith and Hannah Whitall Smith, Logan attended Haverford College and Balliol College, Oxford.
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 Bertrand Russell: A Passionate Rationalist
The Pearsall Smith acquaintanceship introduced him to progressives such as Shaw, Frederic Harrison and the Webbs, and to Alys Pearsall Smith with whom he fell deeply in love.
Meanwhile, at the age of twenty-one he had inherited sufficient means to ensure financial independence and persuaded Alys Pearsall Smith, whom he had courted for three years, to marry him.
His marriage with Alys which lasted nearly thirty years, although with complete separation for nearly half of it, was deeply unhappy and sexually unsatisfactory; both parties were by turn patient, bitter and despairing.
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 Bertrand Russell - ExampleProblems.com
Russell first met the American Quaker, Alys Pearsall Smith, when he was seventeen years old.
He fell in love with the puritanical, high-minded Alys, who was connected to several educationists and religious activists, and, contrary to his grandmother's wishes, he married her in December 1894.
On the couple's return to England in 1921, Dora was five months pregnant, and Russell arranged a hasty divorce from Alys, marrying Dora six days after the divorce was finalised.
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 Hannah Whitall Smith
Hannah Tatum Whitall Smith was a lay speaker and author in the Holiness movement in the United States and the Higher Life movement in Great Britain.
Hannah's Smith's spiritual journey, as she shares in her autobiography, "The Unselfishness of God" is a fascinating read, that still has application for the contemporary Christian.
She shares how she came from legalistic and mystical Quakerism, to a solid "Romans Road" approach to salvation as she learned from the Plymouth Brethren, and on into her own growth as a teacher in the Body of Christ.
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 Love, logic & unbearable pity: The private Bertrand Russell by Roger Kimball   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
In addition to Logan, there was her sister Mary, the eldest Smith child, who ran off with and eventually married Bernard Berenson, the great art connoisseur and doyen of I Tatti.
Alys deserves recognition as one of the few people in Russell’s circle who could compete with him in self-righteousness.
Alys did not cast things in the grandiose terms that her husband favored.
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 Betrand Russell --Great Minds, Great Thinkers
Alys pined for him for these years and continued to love Russell for the rest of her life.
Russell began his published work in 1896 with German Social Democracy, a study in politics that was an early indication of a lifelong interest in political and social theory.
When the couple visited Japan on their return journey, Dora notified journalists that "Mr Bertrand Russell, having died according to the Japanese press, is unable to give interviews to Japanese journalists".
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 Bertrand Russell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Russell first met the American Quaker Alys Pearsall Smith when he was years old.
He fell in love with puritanical high-minded Alys who was connected to educationists and religious activists and married her December 1894.
In 1921 after Russell had lost his he divorced Alys and married Dora Russell nee Dora Black.
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 HTML Translation of SGML/EAD Document by Tim Green   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Alys Pearsall Smith was an American Quaker who worked for the temperance cause.
Pearsall Smith married Russell in 1894, despite opposition from both their families.
She then lived in Chelsea, London, with her brother the writer Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946).
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 Alys Pearsall Smith   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
She was the daughter of Robert Pearsall Smith and Hannah Whitall Smith, who were prominent figures in the Holiness movement in America and the Higher Life movement in Great Britain.
In England the family came into contact with such prominent people as George Bernard Shaw, Henry James, Bernard Berenson (who married Alys's sister Mary), and Bertrand Russell (who married Alys).
Smith was the sister of essayist and critic Logan Pearsall Smith.
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 Alys Pearsall Smith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alys Whitall Pearsall Smith (1867 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -- January 22, 1951) was the first wife of Bertrand Russell.
In England the family came into contact with the likes of George Bernard Shaw, Henry James, and Bernard Berenson, who married her sister Mary.
Alys married Bertrand Russell on December 13, 1894 in the Quaker Meeting House in St. Martin's Lane, London, England.
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 Amazon.com: "Pearsall Smith": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The apostles of the new teaching were Robert and Hannah Pearsall Smith, an American couple who addressed gatherings `for the promotion of scriptural holiness' at Oxford in 1874 and Brighton in 1875.
These were Robert and Hannah Pearsall Smith, rich Philadelphia Quakers who had been well known on both sides of the Atlantic as evangelical crusaders.
The woman in question was Alys Pearsall Smith, the daughter of a wealthy Quaker family from Philadelphia, who, in 1889, came to live in a large farmhouse called...
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 Bertrand Russell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Russell was primarily raised by his grandmother, who was quite religious, and her influence on his outlook on social justice and standing up for principle remained with him throughout his life.
Their marriage was ended by separation in 1911 when Russell realized he no longer loved her.
Alys pined for him for years and continued to love Russell for the rest of her life.
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 Bertrand Russell Was A Complex Man
I think that Fred Smith is concerned about the consistency of his thinking.
Fred Smith, on the other hand, is still very much alive, I hope.
Well, on this matter of female and male dentition Aristotle was caught in a bind, perhaps because certain subjects are considered too sacred (or too silly) to study, and a woman might not want her husband to be scientific about her teeth.
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He then, in 1894, marries Alys Pearsall Smith.
In 1916 he was fined 110 pounds and dismissed from Trinity college as a result of anti-war protests., and in 1918 he was imprisoned for the same reason.
In 1921 he divorced Alys and married Dora Black This was the same year he published “The Analysis of the Mind.” In 1929 he released a book ironically entitled “Marriage and Morals.” After a fourteen year marriage, they divorced in 1935.
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 Helping Fred Smith Write Clearly
Perhaps in his neologism-prone lapse of rationality Fred Smith expects that John Waters is reading his mind so that Fred doesn't feel the need to be clear in his writing.
Moving on in my response to Fred Smith, since he has brought up the subject of stem cell research I've taken time to find and read articles about stem cell research.
I also note that in many of his U-K articles Fred Smith demonstrates that he is knowledgeable and enthusiastic about modern scientific discoveries, and so I suggest that Fred write an informative article about alternative sources of stem cells.
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 Bertrand Russell Biography and List of Works - Bertrand Russell Books
He quickly distinguished himself in mathematics and philosophy, graduating with a B.A. in the former subject in 1893 and adding a fellowship in the latter in 1895.
For example, in a letter to Alys Pearsall he wrote:
- Bertrand Russell, on eugenics to Alys Pearsall Smith, 2 October 1894.(Selected Letters, vol.
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 Bertrand Arthur William Russell Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
In 1916 he was dismissed because of a scandal over his conviction and fine for writing about the case of a conscientious objector in World War I. His association with Cambridge meant a great deal to Russell, and he was deeply wounded by its abrupt termination.
In 1894, after overcoming the opposition of his family, Russell married an American girl, Alys Pearsall Smith.
The first years of their marriage were largely spent traveling in Europe and in the United States, where Russell gave some lectures.
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 Retreat from Pythagoras
What is striking is the Russell’s intense rationalism not only did not enable him to deal with them better than most others; it actually served to compound the loneliness and inhibit the intimacy.
The repressive sexual upbringing he went through cannot have helped and his desolate first marriage, to Alys Pearsall Smith, accentuated all the problems he brought into it; but he appears never to have been able to find the kind of balance and happiness he craved.
This is shown by Monk in Russell’s relationships with his first three wives, a number of lovers and various friends and colleagues; but it is especially well illuminated by his relationship with the greatest love of his life, the aristocratic Ottoline Morrell, and by his encounter with D. Lawrence.
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 David Quammen, "The man who knew too much" 2003
It came from his future brother-in-law, Logan Pearsall Smith, the aesthetic and slightly loopy brother of Alys Pearsall Smith, who became Russell's first wife.
Seven years older than Bertrand, Logan had studied the classics at Balliol and hung with artists in Paris; he was an imposing if dubious source of postures and opinions.
He could draw a quotation or a fact from diverse sources—Alexander Pope and Muhammad Ali, Izaak Walton and Walt Disney, George Eliot and Karl Marx, baseball and architecture, Gilbert and Sullivan.
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 Russell Biography
His system quickly becomes entangled in a jungle of new expressions: 'terms' ; 'classes of terms'; ' classes of classes of terms'; etc. etc., completely destroying the austere monistic (or shall we say 'monastic') simplicity he'd envisioned for his reconstruction of Mathematics.
It is around the same time, deeply depressed by the stubborn refusal of Mathematics to bend to his need for simplicity and absolute certainty, (and by the worsening nightmare of his marriage with Alys Pearsall Smith), that he writes A Free Man's Worship.
This hymn to intellectual courage in the face of total despair is adumbrated in grandiloquent Ruskinian prose.
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 Bertrand Russell
Henceforth, one of his primary aims was to inquire, with skeptical and parsimonious intent, "how much we can be said to know and with what degree of certainty or doubtfulness."
In the same year, against the wishes of his family, he married Alys Pearsall Smith, the sister of Logan Pearsall Smith (the author of Trivia) and a Quaker from Philadelphia with advanced views.
In the next two years he lectured in the United States on non-Euclidian geometry, traveled in Germany to study economics, was introduced to Marxism by the social democrats there, and, as a result, was appointed first lecturer at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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 Bertrand Arthur William Russell
Married four times (Alys Pearsall Smith, Dora Black, Patricia Spence, Edith Finch) and many affairs from 1914 on, arguing for the liberation of men and women form sexual repression.
Lady Ottoline Momell became his mistress and remained his close friend and confidant until her death in 1938.
(1921) Divorce from Alys and marriage to Dora Black.
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 Logical positivism & Bertrand Russell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Alys Pearsall Smith, when he was seventeen years old.
love with the puritanical, high-minded Alys who was connected to several educationists and religious activists, and married her in December 1894.
In 1921, after Russell had lost his professorship, he divorced Alys and married
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He knew many things about many subjects, and he seemed unwilling to leave any thought unexpressed, any subsidiary point unnoted.
He could draw a quotation or a fact from diverse sources— Alexander Pope and Muhammad Ali, lzaak Walton and Walt Disney, George Eliot and Karl Marx, baseball and architecture, Gilbert and Sullivan.
He seemed to have read everything, but maybe he read too quickly and too easily to appreciate those two sacred virtues of good prose: economy and grace.
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 Bertrand Russell Is Dead; British Philosopher, 97
Graduating with highest honors, he married Alys Pearsall Smith, a pretty American Quaker five years his senior.
The marriage lasted from 1894 to 1921, but it was terminated in fact in 1901.
Subsequently, Russell had several love affairs, including a celebrated liaison with the flamboyant Lady Ottoline Morrell and another with Lady Constance Malleson, the actress known professionally as Collette O'Niel.
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 SparkNotes: Bertrand Russell: Context
Russell graduated from Cambridge in 1894 and was briefly an attaché at the British Embassy in Paris.
In 1895, he returned to England, where he became a fellow of Trinity College and married his first wife, Alys Pearsall Smith.
A year later, after a visit to Berlin, he published German Social Democracy, the first of his seventy-odd books.
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