Bertrand's Brother

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  • ISBN 9781398102835
  • Weight: 732g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 15 Apr 2021
  • Publisher: Amberley Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
  • Language: English
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Frank Russell was the grandson of Prime Minister Lord John Russell and elder brother of philosopher and political activist Bertrand Russell. He was, in his own right, a radical political reformer and outspoken self-determined moralist. He was also the black sheep of his illustrious family: a serial adulterer, tried for bigamy in the House of Lords, who, as a young man, had been sent down from Oxford for supposed homosexual practices. His accuser was his first wife, Mabel Edith, the naïve daughter of socialite and ‘adventuress’ Lady Selina Scott, who forced him repeatedly to publicly defend his good name and honour at a time when male same-sex relationships were reviled and sodomy punishable by up to ten years’ penal servitude. Their decade-long cause célèbre rivalled and was reported alongside the famous misdemeanours of Oscar Wilde. In this first biography of Frank Russell, his story is told through extensive use of private papers and contemporary public accounts. The cultural tensions and moral prejudices of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras are exposed, and Frank’s innate rebelliousness and deeply embedded sense of injustice are explored, producing a portrait of a man vulnerable yet hubristic, well-meaning yet often offensive; a free-thinker, an aristocrat. A ‘common man enlarged’.
Ruth Derham is the author of a biography of the radical aristocrat Frank Russell, titled Bertrand’s Brother, and the co-editor of a new volume of Lionel Johnson’s Winchester Letters. Her longstanding interest in Victorian society developed into Decadent Divorce and underpins and informs her current research into the life of Virginia Mary Crawford. Ruth lives and works in Wiltshire, UK.