Robert Edward Dell (1865–1940) was a

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journalist and socialist activist. Dell matriculated at

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in 1884. He joined the

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in 1889, and served on its executive from 1890. He lectured widely for the society, particularly in Lancashire, but left London in 1893 to become the editor of the '' Surrey Mirror''. Dell joined the Catholic church in 1897, and thereafter became a prominent modernist and anti-fascist writer within the church. He continued to work as an editor, moving to the ''Review of the Week'' in 1900, then ''The Connoisseur'' in 1902. However, in 1906 he moved to Paris, becoming an art dealer, and remaining there through

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. In 1918, Dell became the Paris correspondent for the ''

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'', but he was expelled from the country, and moved to

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. He continued to work as a foreign correspondent for British newspapers, spending time in Berlin, back in Paris, and then again in Geneva. In 1939, he moved to

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, and died there the following year.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dell, Robert 1865 births 1940 deaths Catholic socialists English journalists Members of the Fabian Society