Saturday, 18 March 2017
Query regarding Maud Anna Bell (?1861 - 1947?)
I received an interesting query recently about the WW1 poet Maud Anna Bell
and wondered whether anyone could help:
“As Maud Anna Bell was working for the Serbian Relief Fund, I'm interested
to know if Maud ever went to the Front through her work.
I also found the poem 'Crocuses at Nottingham' attributed to a Miss Jessie
Bell in “The Times” from 1917, so was wondering what had happened there.”
Maud Anna Bell is also included by Catherine W. Reilly in her “English Poetry
of the First World War A Bibliography (St. Martin’s Press, New York, 1978), on
page 52, as having poems included in two WW1 anthologies:
“A Treasury of War Poetry: British
and American poems of the World War, 1914 – 1919” (Boston, Mass., Houghton
Mifflin, 1919, edited by George Herbert Clarke
And
“A Treasury of War Poetry: British
and American poems of the World War, 1914 – 1919” (Hodder & Stoughton,
London, 1919) – in both these the title of the poem is “From a Trench”.
Immediately above the entry for Maud Anna Bell is an entry for a Maud Bell
who published a WW1 collection of poems entitled “London songs and others (poems)” (Bristol,
Horseshoe Publishing Company, 1924.
Could this be the same person?
Details on the Church League for Women's Suffrage -
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wchurch.htm
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=vFjYECMj5k4C&pg=PA14&lpg=PA14&dq=the+serbian+relief+fund&source=bl&ots=2V1sSQPGxh&sig=Z7O46DHFz2unRVBRNczN2TOmsg8&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ySv2UsyZFqiv7AaC_IGQDQ&ved=0CFYQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=the%20serbian%20relief%20fund&f=false
Has anyone any further information about Maud Anna Bell please?