Clara Bell
Clara Courtenay Bell, née Poynter (1835–1927), was an English
Bell was born in Westminster to architect Ambrose Poynter and Emma Forster;[4] her brother was Sir Edward Poynter, a director of the National Gallery.[5] She was a distant relation of Edward Burne-Jones and Rudyard Kipling.[5] She was married to banker Robert Courtenay Bell (1816–1896), with whom she had six children.[4] One of her sons was Charles Francis Bell, who oversaw the Fine Art Department of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford[5] and another was Edmund Hamilton Bell, first curator of the John G. Johnson Collection at what is now the Philadelphia Museum of Art.[6]
Under the direction of
According to an entry in Book News in 1890:
The productions [i.e. translations] she values most are her scientific works, much of which she did for Professor Thistleton Dyer and other English botanists, and for Professor Richter's great work of the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, until then unpublished. This had to be done from the original MSS [manuscripts] in the cramped and minute handwriting of the great artist, all of which, to add to the difficulty, was written backwards.[9]
References
- ^ a b The Illustrated American: 22 November 1890, p.500
- ^ a b The Author: A Monthly Magazine for Literary Workers: Vol.2: 15 November 1890, p. 170
- ^ "Results for 'kw:"translated by clara bell"' > 'Book' > 'English' [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2021-11-02.
- ^ a b Clara Poynter (1835-1927) on ancestry.com [1][permanent dead link]
- ^ a b c "Charles Francis Bell on The Dictionary of Art Historians". Archived from the original on 2012-04-15. Retrieved 2012-04-12.
- ^ "Bell, Edward Hamilton | Dictionary of Art Historians". arthistorians.info. Retrieved 2023-03-07.
- ^ a b c d The Encyclopedia of Literary Translation into English, Vol. 1: p.101
- The Yale Literary Magazine, Vol. 53, No.6: March 1888, p.280
- ^ Hawkins, A.L. (1890). "Asked and answered". Book News (98): 44.
External links
- Works by Clara Bell at Project Gutenberg
- Works by Clara Bell (translator) at Faded Page (Canada)
- Works by or about Clara Bell at Internet Archive
- Works by Clara Bell at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)