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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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marriage of Bertrand Russell and Alys Pearsall Smith. by Sheila Turcon. "EVERYONE IS CONSUMED with curiosity about a Quaker wed ding", an excited Alys wrote to Bertie on 25 November 1894, only a few weeks before their marriage at the Friends Meeting House in St. Martin's Lane, Westminster.
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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.
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).
May 14, 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.
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.
