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- Birth nameEthel Harriman
- Ethel B. Borden was born on December 11, 1897 in New York, USA. She was a writer, known for I Live My Life (1935) and They Wanted to Marry (1937). She was married to Henry Potter Russell. She died on July 4, 1953 in New York City, New York, USA.
- SpouseHenry Potter Russell(1918 - 1925) (divorced, 2 children)
- One of her friends was Noël Coward, who encouraged her to be a writer, advice which she took.
- Daughter of J. Borden Harriman, a New York banker, and Florence Jaffray "Daisy" Hurst Harriman, a suffragette and diplomat (United States Ambassador to Norway July 1, 1937 - April 22, 1940, appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt). While her father died young, in 1914, age 50, her mother outlived her by more than a decade, dying in 1967, age 97.
- She married her first and only husband, Henry Potter Russell, a New York City stockbroker, in France, in 1918, immediately after World War I. She remained in France for a time, pursuing stage acting, while he returned to New YorkThey divorced in 1925, after having two children together, Phyllis Russell and Charles Howland Russell.
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