The author of this book relates a life-long passion and love for her Cornish family home, Carn Voel, in Porthcurno, the home her mother Dora chose for herself and her husband, Bertrand Russell. This story of Dora's house, now the home of her children, reveals that Dora, equally influential in her children's lives, was a leading feminist thinker, author and educationalist in her own right.
The author of this book relates a life-long passion and love for her Cornish family home, Carn Voel, in Porthcurno, the home her mother Dora chose for herself and her husband, Bertrand Russell. This story of Dora's house, now the home of her children, reveals that Dora, equally influential in her children's lives, was a leading feminist thinker, author and educationalist in her own right.