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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.
Alys Pearsall Smith Russell (1867-1951), Bertrand Russell's firs t. wife, was an early "libber" who not only worked politically for women's rights but also sought to improve the immediate social conditions of poor women. She was involved deeply in movements for temperance, better factory conditions, and higher education.
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.
Description: Russell first met the American Quaker, Alys Pearsall Smith, when he was seventeen years old. Russell fell in love with the puritanical, high-minded Alys and in marrying her in December 1894 he distanced himself from the world of Pembroke Lodge.
Alys Pearsall Smith. Alys Whitall Pearsall Smith (1867 - 1951) was born in Philadelphia, USA. Her parents were Robert Pearsall Smith and Hannah Whitall Smith, both prominent Quakers. The family lived in England between 1873 and 1875, and settled there permanently from 1888 onwards.
In December 1894 he married Miss Alys Pearsall Smith. After spending some months in Berlin studying social democracy, they went to live near Haslemere, where he devoted his time to the study of philosophy. In 1900 he visited the Mathematical Congress at Paris.
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.
