author
R. S. Warren (Robert Stanley Warren) Bell
1871–1921
Best remembered for lively adventure fiction and magazine work, this English writer helped shape boys’ reading at the turn of the 20th century. He mixed journalism, editing, and storytelling in a career that also connected him with early P. G. Wodehouse.
2 Audiobooks
Marie Corelli: The Writer and the Woman
by Thomas F. G. Coates, R. S. Warren (Robert Stanley Warren) Bell
Jim Mortimer
by R. S. Warren (Robert Stanley Warren) Bell
About the author
Born in 1871, Robert Stanley Warren Bell wrote under the name R. S. Warren Bell and worked as both a novelist and a journalist. He is especially noted as the first editor of The Captain, a magazine for boys and former schoolboys, where P. G. Wodehouse was among the early contributors.
Bell was an English writer from Yorkshire, and his family also included other literary figures: his brother John Keble Bell became well known under the pen name Keble Howard. Alongside his editorial work, Bell published fiction of his own, including school and adventure stories that suited the tastes of popular readers of his time.
He died on September 26, 1921. Although he is not as widely read today as some of his contemporaries, his work still offers a glimpse of late Victorian and Edwardian popular storytelling, especially the energetic world of boys’ magazines and serial fiction.