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Bertrand Arthur William, 3rd Earl Russell Russell

Male : Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist. Nobel Prize 1950. Married Alys Pearsall Smith. His second wife was the feminist writer Dora Winifred Black (1894-1986). They divorced in 1934 and he married Patricia Spence in 1936.
Imprisoned in WW2 for his Pacifism
Nationality : Welsh Place of Birth : Trelleck, Gwent

Date of Birth : 1872 Date of Death : 1970 Age : 98

Education : Educated Privately & Trinity College, Cambridge
1896-1910
German Social Democracy : Six Lectures
(1896 Longmans, Green)
An essay on the Foundations of Geometry
(1897 Constable)
The Philosophy of Lieniz
(1900)
The Principles of Mathematics : Vol 1
(1903 CUP)
Philosophical Essays
(1910)
Principia Mathematica
(1910-13 CUP) - 3 vols. with A N Whitehead

1911-1920
Problems of Philosophy
(1912 OUP)
Our Knowledge of the External World
(1914 Open Court Publ, Chicago & London)
The Philosophy of Bergson
(1914 for the Heretics by Bowes, Cambridge)
Political Ideals
(1916 Nat Council for Civil Liberties, London) - 12pp stapled
Justice in Wartime
(1916)
Principles of Social Reconstruction
(1916)
Rex v. Bertrand Russell : Report of the proceedings before the Lord Mayor at the Mansion House
Justice Room 5 June 1916
(1916 No-Conscription Fellowship, London) - 23pp stapled
Political Ideals
(1917)
Roads to Freedom
(1918)
Mysticism and Logic & other Essays
(1918 Longmans Green)
Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
(1919 Allen & Unwin)
The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism
(1920)

1921-1930
The Analysis of Mind
(1921 Allen & Unwin)
The Problem of China
(1922)
The Prospects of Industrial Vivilization
(1923) - with Dora Russell
The ABC of Atoms
(1923)
Icarus or the Future of Science
(1924 Spokesman Books)
The ABC of Relativity
(1925 London) (1925 Harper, NY)
On Education
(1926)
An Oultine of Philosophy
(1927)
The Analysis of Matter
(1927 Kegan Paul)
Sceptical Essays
(1928 Allen & Unwin) (1928 Norton)
Marriage and Morals
(1929 A & U) (1929 Liveright)
The Conquest of Happiness
(1930 A & U) (1930 Liveright)

1931-1950
The Scientific Outlook
(1931 Allen & Unwin)
Education and the Social order
(1932)
Freedom and Organization : 1814-1914
(1934)
In Praise of Idleness
(1935 A & U) (1935 Norton)
Religion and Science
(1935 OUP)
Which Way to peace ?
(1936)
The Amberley Papers
(1937) - 2 vols. with Patricia Russell
Power : A New Social Analysis
(1938 Allen & Unwin)
An Inquiry into Meaning & Truth
(1940 Allen & Unwin)
A History of Western Philosophy
(1945 A & U) (1946 Simon & Schuster)
Philosophy and Politics
(1947 CUP for National Book League)
Human Knowledge : Its Scope and Limits
(1948 A & U)
Authority and the Individual : The Reith Lectures for 1948-9
(1949 Allen & Unwin 6/-)
Unpopular Essays
(1950)

1951-1960
New Hopes for a Changing World
(1951 Allen & Unwin)
The Impact of Science on Society
(1952 Allen & Unwin)
The Good Citizens Alphabet
(1953 Gaberbocchus Press, London) - Franciszka Themerson
Satan in the Suburbs & Other Stories
(1953 Bodley Head) (1953 S & S) - Asgeir Scott
[His q1st fiction book]
Nightmares of Eminent Persons
(1954 Bodley Head) (1955 S & S)
Human Society in Ethics and Politics
(1954)
Logic and Knowledge
(1956) - Edited by R C Marsh
Portraits from Memory & Other Essays
(1956 A & U 16/-) (1956 S & S)
Why I am Not a Christian
(1957) - edited by Paul Edwards
Understanding History & Other Essays
(1957 US)
Vital Letters of Russell, Krushche, Dulles
(1958)
Bertrand Russell's Best : Silhouettes in Satire
(1958 Allen & Unwin 10/6)
- edited by Robert E Egner
Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare
(1959)
Wisdom of the West
(1959 Macdonald) - Edited by Paul Foulkes
My Philosophical Development
(1959)
Bertrand Russell Spekas His Mind
(1960)

After 1961
Fact and Fiction
(1961 Allen & Unwin) (1962 S & S)
Has Man a Future ?
(1961)
The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell
(1961) - Edited by R E Egner & L Denonn
Unarmed Victory
(1963)
War Crimes in Vietnam
(1967)
The Archives of Bertrand Russell
(1967 Continuum) - Edited by B Feinberg
Autobiography
(1967-9 Allen & Unwin) (1967-9 Little Brown) - 3 vols
Dear Bertrand Russell
(1969) - Edited by B Feinberg & R Kasrils
The Collected Stories of Bertrand Russell
(1972) - Edited by B Feinberg
Essays in Analysis
(1973) - Edited by Douglas Lackey
Bertrand Russell's America
(1973) - Edited by Barry Feinberg & Ronald Kasrils

READING
R W Clark : The Life of Bertrand Russell
(1976 NY)
Ronald Clark : Bertrand Russell and His World
(1981 Thames & Hudson £5.95)
(Eds) Kenneth Blackwell & Harry Ruja : A Bibliography of Bertrand Russell (1995 Routledge £25)
Ray Monk : Bertrand Russell - The Spirit of Solitude
(1996 Cape £25)