Dame Florence Eveleen Eleanore, Lady Bell, (née Olliffe; 9 September 1851 - 16 May 1930) was a British writer and playwright.

Biography

Bell was born in

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in 1851, the youngest of four children of Irish-born

Joseph Francis Olliffe Sir Joseph Francis Olliffe (1808 – 14 March 1869) was an Irish-born British physician. Early life Sir Joseph Olliffe was born in 1808 in Cork, Ireland. His father was Joseph Francis Olliffe (c. 1776 – 1830), a merchant of Cork. His mother ...

(later Sir Joseph Olliffe) and Laura Cubitt. She was the second wife of Sir Hugh Bell, 2nd Baronet Bell of Rounton Grange, and was styled Lady Bell. The couple had three children: * Hugh Lowthian Bell (21 October 1878 – 2 February 1926) * Florence Elsa Bell (c. 1880 – 3 May 1971, married Admiral Sir Herbert Richmond) * Mary Katherine Bell, OBE (c. 1882 - 8 October 1966, married

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) Bell was the stepmother to her husband's children from his first marriage:

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explorer and key political figure in the

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Gertrude Bell Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell, CBE (14 July 1868 – 12 July 1926) was an English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, and archaeologist. She spent much of her life exploring and mapping the Middle East, and became highl ...

(1868–1926) and Maurice, 3rd Baronet (1871–1944). In 1918 she was appointed as Dame Commander of the

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(DBE). She died on 16 May 1930 at her home, 95 Sloane Street,

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Works

*''Alan's Wife'' (with

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, 1893) *''A Collection of Plays and Monologues for the Drawing Room'' *''At the Works: Study of a Manufacturing Town, Middlesbrough'' (1907) *''The Letters of Gertrude Bell, Volume 1'' (1927) *''The Letters of Gertrude Bell, Volume II'' (1927) *''French Without Tears: Book I'' *''French Without Tears: Book II'' *''French Without Tears: Book III'' *''Petit theâtre des enfants: twelve tiny french plays for children'' *’Chantez, mes enfants! Chansons populaires mimées et sans gestes, rondes, etc avec accompagnement de piano choisies et arrangées par Lady Bell’ 1918

References

External links

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Lady Bell bibliography
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