Florence Bell

Florence Eveleen Eleanor Ollife (* 1851, † May 16, 1930 ), even Florence Ollife, after her marriage to Thomas Huge Bell and Florence Bell, was a British writer of plays and nonfiction. Through her marriage to the son of Isaac Lowthian Bell in 1876, she belonged to one of the wealthiest British industrialist families. Thomas Huge Bell brought two children into the marriage. These included the later orientalist, archaeologist and politician Gertrude Bell, who was in close epistolary exchange with her stepmother until the day she died. The correspondence between the two is an important document for British policy in the Middle East during and after the First World War.

The most important non-fiction book among the works of Florence is Ollife At the Works, which was released in 1907 and was dedicated to the social scientist Charles Booth. It described the working and living conditions of industrial workers in Middlesbrough. Among her other books, The Minor is one moralist, by stressing their commitment to traditional values ​​. Together with the American stage actress Elizabeth Robins she also wrote stage plays, however, appeared anonymously. Florence Ollife was indeed strongly influenced by Henrik Ibsen, however, was the women's movement, which fought for its life time especially for the right to vote, always skeptical.