Talk:Lady Agatha Russell

Latest comment: 3 years ago by 86.43.172.68 in topic Date of death

Date of death edit

Every online source I've found gives her year of death as 1933 rather than 1953, so I have changed it. --Bookworm857158367 (talk) 04:44, 25 September 2010 (UTC)Reply


ADD Agatha Russell played an important role in raising young Bertrand Russell when is parents died. Her radicalism went beyond the accepted attitude of Whig liberalism. She interested herself in the women's suffrage movement, in land reform generally, and in Irish Home Rule.The Irish Land League founder, Michael Davitt, was a close associate. She recruited Davitt to accompany Bertie on a walking holiday in Ireland (see his Autobiography 1872-1914 (1967) pp, 46-47. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.43.172.68 (talk) 10:12, 4 September 2020 (UTC)Reply