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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.
Dora Winifred Russell, Countess Russell ( née Black; 3 April 1894 – 31 May 1986) was a British author, a feminist and socialist campaigner, and the second wife of the philosopher Bertrand Russell. She was a campaigner for contraception and peace.
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.
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.
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.
Jan 18, 2022 · At Cambridge, Russell also met his first wife, Alys Pearsall Smith. Their marriage would not end happily: they divorced in 1921, after some painful years and an years-long period of separation. This was a pattern that continued: Russell married Dora Black on 27 September 1921.
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 1889, Russell at 17 years of age, met the family of Alys Pearsall Smith, an American Quaker five years older, who was a graduate of Bryn Mawr College near Philadelphia.: 37 He became a friend of the Pearsall Smith family. They knew him as "Lord John's grandson" and enjoyed showing him off.
His first marriage, to the American Quaker Alys Pearsall Smith, was effectively doomed to failure when, during an infamous bicycle ride, he suddenly realized he was no longer in love with her – although the couple did not divorce for twenty years.
