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Lady Florence Eveleen Eleanore Olliffe Bell
1851–1930
A sharp-eyed novelist, playwright, and social observer, she wrote with equal interest about family life, industry, and the changing world around her. Her work is often remembered for blending literary skill with a close, practical understanding of working communities.
4 Audiobooks
The Cat and Fiddle Book Eight Dramatised Nursery Rhymes for Nursery Performers
by Lady Florence Eveleen Eleanore Olliffe Bell, Lady Florence Elsa Bell Richmond
The Arbiter: A Novel
by Lady Florence Eveleen Eleanore Olliffe Bell
Nursery Comedies: Twelve Tiny Plays for Children
by Lady Florence Eveleen Eleanore Olliffe Bell
Four Short Plays
by Lady Florence Eveleen Eleanore Olliffe Bell
About the author
Born in Paris in 1851, Florence Eveleen Eleanore Olliffe became Lady Bell after marrying industrialist Sir Hugh Bell. She was a British writer and playwright, and sources consistently note her wide range of interests, from fiction and drama to social investigation.
She is especially associated with Middlesbrough and the industrial North of England. Her book At the Works is often highlighted for its account of iron and steel communities, showing the same curiosity about everyday working life that runs through much of her writing.
Bell was also connected to a remarkable wider family and public world: she was the stepmother of Gertrude Bell, and she was later appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. She died in 1930, leaving behind a body of work that joined storytelling with close observation of society.