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Bella Sidney Woolf

Bella Sidney Woolf

Born:
1887
Died:
5 Kislev 5721 (24 November 1960)

Basic Information

Unique reference:
WOO9022
Other surname:
Southorn
Gender:
Female

Birth

Date of birth:
1887
Place of birth:
London

Death

Date of death:
5 Kislev 5721 (24 November 1960)
Died in combat?:
No

Places

Other Organisations

Name:
Girl Guides Commissioner
Date:
1926
Significance:
Awarded an OBE for her services
Bella in her girl guide uniform
Bella in her girl guide uniform

Synagogues

Name:
Upper Berkeley Street Synagogue

Authored Works

Jerry & Joe, A Tale of Two Jubilees (Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier, Edinburgh, 1897)

All in a Castle Fair (Cassell, New York, 1900)

Dear Sweet Anne or The Mysterious Veres (Collins, probably 1900–1910)

Golden House (Duckworth and Co., c1910)

The Twins in Ceylon (Duckworth and Co., London, 1909, 1913) and sequels

How To See Ceylon (1st Ed: Visidunu Prakashakayo, 1914; 2nd Ed: Times of Ceylon Co, 1922; 4th Ed: Times of Ceylon Co, 1929) (ISBN 9559170511)

Right against might; the great war of 1914 (Cambridge, W. Heffer, 1914) (Reprinted: Pranava Books, 2009)

Eastern Star-Dust (Times of Ceylon, Colombo, 1922)

The Strange Little Girl (Thomas Nelson and Sons, London c1923)

Little Miss Prue

Chips of China (Kelly and Walsh Ltd, Shanghai, 1930)

From Groves of Palm (W. Heffer & Sons Ltd, Cambridge, 1925)

Bits of Old China and Under the Mosquito Curtain

Family

Spouse

Robert Heath Lock (male)
Place of marriage:
Kandy, 1910

Spouse

Thomas Southorn (male)
Place of marriage:
Ceylon, 1921

Siblings

Arnold Herbert Sidney Woolf "Herbert" (male)
Leonard Sidney Woolf (male)
Benjamin Sidney Woolf (male)
Edgar Sidney Woolf (male)
Clara Sidney Woolf (female)
Flora Sidney Woolf (female)
Cecil Nathan Sidney Woolf (male)
Philip Sidney Woolf (male)

Parents

Father: Solomon Rees Sidney Woolf Q.C. (male)
Mother: Marie Bathilde de Jongh (female)
Bella and Thomas at their wedding
Bella and Thomas at their wedding

Homefront

Member of family in armed forces:
Three brothers - Edgar, Cecil and Philip

Other Occupations

Type of employment:
Writer of both Fiction and Non-fiction
Bella writing
Bella writing

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