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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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
Alys Whitall Russell (née Pearsall Smith) (1867-1951), First wife of Bertrand Russell; daughter of Robert Pearsall Smith. Sitter in 56 portraits.
Feb 25, 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.
Alys Whitall Russell (née Pearsall Smith) (1867-1951), First wife of Bertrand Russell; daughter of Robert Pearsall Smith.
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.
