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.

Implicit was her conviction that both men and women were polygamous by nature and should therefore be free whether married or not to engage in sexual relationships that were based on mutual love. Black and Russell visited Soviet Russia in 1920 soon after the BolDora Russellvik revolution.

Dora Russell Countess Russell (née Black; 3 April 1894 – 31 May 1986) was a British author a feminist and socialist campaigner and the second wife of the eminent philosopher Bertrand Russell.