Julian Bell

Julian Heward Bell (1908 – July, 1937) was an English poet, and the son of Clive and Vanessa Bell. The writer Quentin Bell was his younger brother.

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1908 - 1937 - Clive - Vanessa Bell - Quentin Bell

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He was brought up mainly at Charleston, Sussex. He was educated at Leighton Park and King's College, Cambridge, where he joined the Cambridge Apostles. He was a friend of some of the Cambridge Five, and sometimes claimed as Anthony Blunt's lover. After graduating he worked towards a college fellowship, without success.

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Charleston, Sussex - Leighton Park - King's College, Cambridge - Cambridge Apostles - Cambridge Five - Anthony Blunt

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In 1935 he went to China, to a position teaching English at Wuhan University. He wrote letters describing his relationship with a lover, K.; the identity of this woman became a sensitive issue when the Chinese-British novelist Hong Ying wrote a fictionalised account, K: The Art of Love. 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.

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China - Wuhan University - Hong Ying

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In 1937 he took part in the Spanish Civil War, as an ambulance driver on the Republican side. He was killed in the battle at Brunete.

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Spanish Civil War - Ambulance - Brunete

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