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ada dwyer russell -lrb- 1863 -- 1952 -rrb- , was a mormon actress of the stage .
she performed on stage in broadway and london .
dwyer married harold russell in 1893 but entered a lifelong separation a few years after their marriage .
the couple never sought divorce .
in 1909 russell met writer amy lowell .
the two entered into long-term lesbian relationship , or a `` boston marriage '' -lrb- the term for a 19th-century romantic female relationship -rrb- beginning in 1912 , which would last until lowell 's death in 1925 .
russell was the subject of many of lowell 's explicit poems , such as `` the taxi '' .
russell was also the executrix of amy lowell 's will , and burned all her items upon request .
in `` the taxi '' , lowell conveys a strong sense of her separation from russell and her pain .
collected in `` sword blades '' and `` poppy seed '' -lrb- published in september 1914 -rrb- , `` the taxi '' serves as an excellent example of amy lowell 's `` polyphonic prose '' , in which she experimented with different `` rhythmic units '' .
lowell left her fortune in a trust to ada russell .
