Robert Bell (writer)
Robert Bell (16 January 1800 – 12 April 1867) was an Irish man of letters.
Life
Bell was the son of an Irish magistrate, born at
In 1828, Bell settled in London, around the time he authored a pamphlet on
A member of the committee of the Royal Literary Fund, Bell helped struggling and unsuccessful men of letters, and his death on 12 April 1867 was much regretted. In accordance with his request he was buried near the grave of his friend William Makepeace Thackeray, in Kensal Green Cemetery.[1]
Works
He edited The Story-teller, 1843, and in 1849 the concluding volumes of the Correspondence of the Fairfax Family. In 1846 had appeared his popularly written Life of Canning.[1]
Bell's major work was his annotated edition of the English Poets (24 vols., 1854–1857; new ed., 29 vols., 1866), the works of each poet being prefaced by a memoir. For
Bell wrote also a continuation, with W. Wallace, of
Notes
- ^ a b c d Espinasse 1885.
References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Espinasse, Francis (1885). "Bell, Robert (1800-1867)". In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 4. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 686–687.
- A Compendium of Irish Biography. Dublin: M. H. Gill & son.
- Espinasse, Francis; Banerji, Nilanjana. "Bell, Robert (1800–1867)". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/2024. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)