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Then and Now: Bertie and Colette's Escapes to the Peak District and Welsh Borderlands
Full text linkBertrand Russell and Constance Malleson visited two places in the Peak District and the Welsh borderlands during the early years of their romance, 1916–18. They wrote frequently about both places. Their biographers, however, spend little time on them. What they do write is sometimes inaccurate and in one case jaded. The author visits the places to see what they are like today and to gain insight into why vacations there intensified the couple’s relationship
A History of Brixton Prison [review of Christopher Impey, The House on the Hill: Brixton]
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What Did Colette Know and When Did She Know It?
Full text linkt has been several years since Kirk Willis’s article appeared in Russell. When I first read it, I thought how could Constance Malleson (“Colette O’Niel”) have believed that Russell had died from pneumonia? Willis takes her at her word. I have finally decided to delve deeper, building on the evidence that Willis presents on the published reports of Russell’s death
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