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Edith Finch, Countess Russell (5 November 1900 – 1 January 1978) was an American writer and biographer. She was the fourth and last wife of Bertrand Russell.
Russell married his fourth wife, Edith Finch, soon after the divorce, on 15 December 1952. They had known each other since 1925, and Edith had taught English at Bryn Mawr College near Philadelphia, sharing a house for 20 years with Russell's old friend Lucy Donnelly.
Mar 17, 2014 · Russell first met Edith Finch in the early 1930s: they shared a mutual friendship with a woman named Lucy Donnelly, an acclaimed teacher of English whose countenance he had met by Alys’s introduction.
Description: Russell with his fourth wife Edith (Finch). They had known each other since 1925. Edith had lectured in English at Bryn Mawr College, near Philadelphia.
Only Russell’s fourth marriage, to a longstanding American friend named Edith Finch, proved lasting. Russell began his autobiography with a very touching poem dedicated to her. Russell’s four marriages did not exhaust his passionate search for love.
Jun 21, 2024 · In 1952 Russell married his fourth wife, Edith Finch, and finally, at the age of 80, found lasting marital harmony. Russell devoted his last years to campaigning against nuclear weapons and the Vietnam War, assuming once again the role of gadfly of the establishment.
That Lucy "fell in love" with Russell is debatable, but new perspectives on their relationship are gained in the letters that she wrote to Helen Thomas Flexner when she stayed with the Russells during the I Edith Finch's biographical sketch of Lucy Donnelly appears in Edward T. James, ed., Notable American Women 16°7-195° (Cambridge, Mass.:
