by Dora Russell with Sally Hardcastle
Dora Russell , second wife of Bertrand Russell , talks about her early life.
In the space of a few years, during and after the First World War, she obtained a first-class Honours degree at Girton College, Oxford, and visited America, Russia and China, all by the age of 25. In the first of two programmes she recollects the impact that the United States and post-revolutionary Russia had on her thinking. She remembers her time in China where she lived openly with Bertrand Russell , which shocked the foreign establishment but amused the Chinese, who regarded her as Russell's 'favourite concubine'. Research MONA ADAMS
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