You could not receive a young man in your room; you might be permitted to have him to tea in one of the public reception rooms, but you could accept no invitation from young men to tea or other entertainment without a chaperone from the College.
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Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system.
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| Birth: | 3rd April, 1894 |
| Death: | 31st May, 1986 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Author, Feminist |
About
Dora Russell was a British author, a feminist and socialist campaigner, and the second wife of the eminent philosopher Bertrand Russell. Her three-volume autobiography, The Tamarisk Tree, was published in 1977, 1981 and 1985. wrote a female reviewer in 1925 of Russell’s first book, Hypatia, or Women and Knowledge, a feminist brief for women’s sexual freedom and against marriage.
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