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Alyssa Whitall "Alys" Pearsall Smith (21 July 1867 – 22 January 1951) was an American-born British Quaker relief organiser and the first wife of Bertrand Russell. She chaired the society that created an innovative school for mothers in 1907.
When Alys Pearsall Smith was born on 21 July 1867, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Robert Pearsall Smith, was 40 and her mother, Hannah Tatum Whitall, was 35. She married Earl Bertrand Arthur William Russell on 13 December 1894, in London, England, United Kingdom.
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- Earl Bertrand Arthur William Russell
This chapter discusses Russell's love and affection for Alys, the youngest daughter of Robert Pearsall Smith and his wife, Hannah. Although Alys initially displayed a disdain for marriage, she eventually succumbed to his courtship on September 16, 1893. They eventually got married on May 31, 1894.
The story of Alys and Bertie's reliltion ship, including their troubled and time-tested 'courtship, their first happy years of married life, their marital problems which led to estrangement, separation and finally divorce, has been re counted elsewhere.! Here the reader will learn of only one.
25. Feb. 2020 · Alys Pearsall Smith, his first wife, was an American college student from a wealthy Philadelphia family who lived in England. When they met, Smith was twenty-two, five years older than Russell, and she was said to be highly intelligent and strikingly beautiful. Russell’s grandmother did not approve of the match and did everything ...
14. Mai 2024 · The book was written partly as the outcome of a visit to Berlin in 1895 with his first wife, Alys Pearsall Smith, whom he had married the previous year. In Berlin, Russell formulated an ambitious scheme of writing two series of books, one on the philosophy of the sciences, the other on social and political questions. “At last ...
Born Alys Pearsall Smith, 1866, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; died 1951; dau. of Hannah (Whitall) and Robert Smith (preacher); sister of Mary Berenson; aunt of Ray Strachey; graduate of Bryn Mawr; became 1st wife of Bertrand Russell (pacifist, philosopher and author), Dec 1894 (div. 1921).
