Edith Finch Russell
Edith Finch, Countess Russell (5 November 1900 – 1 January 1978) was an American writer and biographer. She was the fourth and last wife of Bertrand Russell.
Biography
Finch was born to Edward Bronson Finch, a physician, and his wife, Delia. Raised in New York City, she graduated from Miss Chapin's School.[1] She studied at Bryn Mawr College (A.B. 1922) and St Hilda's College, Oxford where she was awarded degrees in 1925 and 1926.
Finch was primarily an independent scholar but did teach English literature at Bryn Mawr College in the late 1920s. She traveled extensively in Europe in the 1930s and 1940s, while continuing to write and lecture. She published biographies of Wilfred Scawen Blunt in 1938 and M. Carey Thomas, a president of Bryn Mawr, in 1947.
Finch was Bertrand Russell's fourth and last wife. She first met Russell in the 1930s through her close friend and housemate Lucy Martin Donnelly, who was a friend of Russell's first wife, Alys. Finch moved to England in 1950 and married Russell in December 1952. By all accounts, it was a very happy marriage. The couple settled in Wales where Bertrand died in 1970. Edith died in 1978.[2]
Works
- Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, 1840-1922, 1938
- Carey Thomas of Bryn Mawr, 1947
- Strange Humanity. Original thoughts, 1954
References
External links
- "Edith Russell fonds". Archives & Research Collections. McMaster University Library. Retrieved 29 April 2016.
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- The Principles of Mathematics (1903)
- On Denoting (1905)
- Principia Mathematica (1910–1913)
- The Problems of Philosophy (1912)
- Why Men Fight (1916)
- Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy (1919)
- Free Thought and Official Propaganda (1922)
- Why I Am Not a Christian (1927)
- Marriage and Morals (1929)
- In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays (1935)
- Power: A New Social Analysis (1938)
- A History of Western Philosophy (1945)
- My Philosophical Development (1959)
- Alys Pearsall Smith (wife, 1894–1921)
- Dora Russell (wife, 1921–35)
- Patricia Russell (wife, 1936–51)
- Edith Finch Russell (wife, 1952–70)
- John Russell, 4th Earl Russell (son)
- Conrad Russell, 5th Earl Russell (son)
- Frank Russell, 2nd Earl Russell (brother)
- John Russell, Viscount Amberley (father)
- Katharine Russell, Viscountess Amberley (mother)
- John Stuart Mill (godfather)
- John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (paternal grandfather)
- Henrietta Stanley, Baroness Stanley of Alderley (maternal grandmother)
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