He has described her as a ‘remarkable woman and a fantastic writer. Sennett was brought up by his mother, Dorothy. His maternal grandparents went to Chicago where his grandfather – who was a mathematician – went to work for the General Electric Corporation.Īround seven months after Richard was born, his father returned to Spain and stayed on there, after hostilities ceased. After the 1917 Revolution, they fled St Petersburg for Canada – where his paternal grandparents stayed for a while. Interestingly, both his maternal and paternal grandparents had mixed marriages of Russian Orthodox and Russian Jewish partners. They were members of the Communist Party although it seems likely that his mother left the party after the Hitler-Stalin pact.
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