The married life of Bertrand Russell, nobly-born British mathematician and philosopher, has been unconventional. His first wife, Alys Pearsall Smith, a Quaker, divorced him in 1921 because he was about to have a child by another woman, Dora Winifred Black. His second wife, Dora Black, shared his view that people should "indulge in marital infidelity to preserve their homes." In 1933 she announced that she had had a child by British Journalist Griffin Barry. Two years later she divorced Earl Russell, charging him with adultery. Next year, at 64, Earl Russell married his former secretary, Patricia Helen Spence, who later bore...
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