Description: Russell first met the
American Quaker, Alys Pearsall Smith, when he was
seventeen years old. Russell fell in love with the
puritanical, high-minded Alys and in marrying her in
December 1894 he distanced himself from the world of
Pembroke Lodge. He was once attracted to her younger
sister Mary, who later married the distinguished art
historian Bernard Berenson.
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