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Henry Thomas Mackenzie Bell

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697: 41: 529: 256:, England, on 2 March 1856, the youngest child of merchant Thomas Bell and Margaret Mackenzie. His uncle was the Scottish judge and Solicitor-General for Scotland Lord Thomas Mackenzie. Bell suffered from poor health as a child, a fall resulting from a careless nurse having caused a minor 417:'s Imperial Federation Committee, lectured for the Social and Political Education League and on four occasions contested St George Hanover Square (or the London County Council) on behalf of the 543: 750: 321:
and eventually became its leading literary critic. Bell went on to become a contributor of articles, poems and letters to various Victorian era publications including
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A noted world traveller, he was acquainted with many literary figures in Victorian Britain and abroad. He was a personal friend of
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and wrote her biography after her death. While a young man, he published his first poetry books
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and on four occasions contested St George Hanover Square on behalf of the
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Twentieth Century Authors: A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Literature
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During the 1890s, he published a second series of poetry collections
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and authored her biography, as well as those of fellow English poets
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Selected Letters of William Michael Rossetti and Christina Rossetti
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Half Hours with Representative Novelists of the Nineteenth Century
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Mid-Victorian Poetry, 1860–1879: An Annotated Biobibliography
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Henry Thomas Mackenzie Bell was born at 8 Falconer Square,
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Men and Women of the Time: A Dictionary of Contemporaries
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Poems: With a Dedicatory Essay to Theodore Watts-Dunton
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In 1884, Bell returned to Great Britain and settled in
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A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature
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Christina Rossetti: A Biographical and Critical Study
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Christina Rossetti: A Biographical and Critical Study
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Christina Rossetti: A Biographical and Critical Study
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He gained a staff position on the 39: 28: 680:Chambers, Robert and David Patrick, eds. 635: 633: 631: 629: 563: 561: 653: 651: 649: 590: 588: 586: 584: 615: 613: 611: 557: 443:The Keeping of the Vow and Other Verses 381:The Poets and the Poetry of the Century 290:The Keeping of the Vow and Other Verses 461:A Forgotten Genius: Charles Whitehead 234:Social and Political Education League 172:A Forgotten Genius: Charles Whitehead 7: 467:Spring's Immortality and Other Poems 392:Spring's Immortality and Other Poems 509:Poetical Pictures of the Great War 485:Pictures of Travel and Other Poems 396:Pictures of Travel and Other Poems 194:publications, most especially the 25: 373:. He also wrote articles for the 639:"Obituary: Mr. Mackenzie Bell." 527: 376:Dictionary of National Biography 218:Dictionary of National Biography 433:, London, on 13 December 1930. 228:, Bell was a charter member of 1: 711:National Register of Archives 413:. He was a charter member of 18:Henry Bell (London candidate) 746:People of the Victorian era 184:Henry Thomas Mackenzie Bell 54:Henry Thomas Mackenzie Bell 777: 240:. He was a member of the 38: 761:British male biographers 741:English literary critics 567:Peattie, Roger W., ed. 643:. 15 December 1930: 8. 517:; Three Volumes (1927) 330:The Pall Mall Magazine 324:The Fortnightly Review 657:Reilly, Catherine W. 449:Verses of Varied Life 294:Verses of Varied Life 539:Cousin, John William 336:The Atlantic Monthly 262:Cambridge University 736:English biographers 425:. 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Henry Bell (London candidate)
Mackenzie Bell 1890
Liverpool
England
London
lecturer
Fiction
poetry
non-fiction
biographies
essay
literary criticism
Victorian era
London Academy
Christina Rossetti
Algernon Swinburne
Charles Whitehead
Dictionary of National Biography
Liberal Imperialist
W. E. Forster
Social and Political Education League
Liberal Party
Athenaeum
Liverpool
paralytic stroke
Cambridge University
Portugal
Spain
Italy
France

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