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Julian Heward Bell (4 February 1908 – 18 July 1937) was an English poet, and the son of Clive and Vanessa Bell (who was the elder sister of Virginia Woolf). The writer Quentin Bell was his younger brother and the writer and painter Angelica Garnett was his half-sister. His relationship with his mother is explored in Susan Sellers' novel Vanessa and Virginia.

Julian Bell
Julian Bell and Elizabeth Watson, 1930
BornJulian Heward Bell
(1908-02-04)4 February 1908
St Pancras, London, England
Died18 July 1937(1937-07-18) (aged 29)
Brunete, Spain
Cause of deathKilled in action (bomb fragments)
OccupationPoet
LanguageEnglish
NationalityEnglish
Alma materKing's College, Cambridge
RelativesClive Bell (father)
Vanessa Bell (mother)

Background


Julian Heward Bell was born in St Pancras, London, and was brought up at Charleston, Sussex. He was educated at Leighton Park School and King's College, Cambridge, where he joined the Cambridge Apostles. He was a friend of some of the Cambridge Five, including Anthony Blunt, to whom he lost his virginity.[1] (In the BBC dramatisation Cambridge Spies he appears as Blunt's lover and Guy Burgess's unrequited love interest). After graduating he worked towards a college fellowship, without success.

In 1935 he went to China, to a position teaching English at Wuhan University. He wrote letters describing his relationship with a married lover, K. - Ling Shuhua, the wife of Professor Chen Yuan (better known by his penname, Chen Xiying). The identity of 'K' became a sensitive issue when the Chinese-British novelist Hong Ying published a fictionalised account, K: The Art of Love in 1999. After a 2002 ruling by a Chinese court, that the book was 'defamation of the dead', the author rewrote the book, which was published in 2003 under the title The English Lover.

Bell was initially a pacifist and edited an anthology of memoirs of conscientious objectors from the First World War, We Did Not Fight.[2]

In 1937, Bell became increasingly supportive of the socialist and anti-fascist movements and decided to enlist in the Spanish Civil War.[3] His parents and his aunt Virginia tried to dissuade him; eventually they persuaded Julian to get a job as an ambulance driver on the Republican side, rather than a soldier.[3] His motive for going to Spain was a general sympathy for the cause of the Spanish Republic, plus "the usefulness of war experience in the future and the prestige one would gain in literature and – even more – Left politics".[4] After just a month in Spain he found himself in the thick of the action, driving an ambulance for the British Medical Unit attached to the International Brigades at the battle of Brunete. He was hit by bomb fragments on a stretch of road just outside Villanueva de la Cañada, sustaining a massive lung wound, and later died in a military hospital at El Escorial. He was 29.[5]


Works



References


  1. "JULIAN BELL BY VANESSA BELL". Charleston: The Bloomsbury Home of Art and Ideas. Retrieved 10 April 2020. Julian felt no qualms in telling his mother of his first sexual experience in a letter of 1929, ‘My great news is about Ant[h]ony. I feel certain you won’t be upset or shaked at my telling you that we sleep together.
  2. Peter Brock, Harvey Leonard Dyck, The Pacifist Impulse in Historical Perspective. Toronto; University of Toronto Press, 1996 ISBN 0802007775 (p. 360)
  3. Linda Palfreeman, Salud!: British Volunteers in the Republican Medical Service During the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 Sussex Academic Press, 2012 ISBN 1845195191 (pp. 270–1)
  4. Hugh Thomas: "The Spanish Civil War", London 1974, p. 590 n.2.
  5. "Bloomsbury's Lost Poet: Julian Bell in Madrid, by Dr Caroline Potter". Retrieved 8 May 2018.

Further reading



На других языках


[de] Julian Bell

Julian Heward Bell (* 4. Februar 1908 in London; † 18. Juli 1937 in Brunete bei Madrid) war ein britischer Maler, Kunstkritiker und Dichter.
- [en] Julian Bell

[es] Julian Bell

Julian Heward Bell (Londres, 4 de febrero de 1908 – Madrid, 18 de julio de 1937) fue un poeta británico, hijo de Clive y Vanessa Bell (la hermana de Virginia Woolf). La novela histórica Los soldados no lloran (2012), del autor neerlandés Rindert Kromhout, está inspirada parcialmente en su vida.

[fr] Julian Bell

Julian Heward Bell (4 février 1908 – 18 juillet 1937) est un poète anglais, fils de Clive et Vanessa Bell, et neveu de Leonard et Virginia Woolf.



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