Julian Heward Bell

Sitterback to top

• Julian Heward Bell (1908-1937), Poet. Sitter in 8 portraits.

Artistback to top

• Helen Morris (née Souter) (active 1930s-1960s), Wife of History professor Christopher Morris. Artist of 2 portraits.

This portraitback to top

In 1929 Julian embarked on two-year affair with Helen Souter. She was an undergraduate of Girton College, reading English. He wrote to her: 'You are infinitely more important to me than anything else in the world or ever has been' and about her 'Helen and I are established at Charleston in a rather Wordsworthian state of rural bliss, recovering from Cambridge and tripos.' In 1933 she married Christopher Morris, a History don at King's College, and became a teacher of English at Homerton College, Cambridge. Souter wrote on the back of the photograph of Julian: 'We went a walk near Hilton - past the maze and on through fields'.

Linked displays and exhibitionsback to top

• The Bloomsbury Poet & The Cambridge Photographer: Julian Bell & Lettice Ramsey (17 September 2012 - 21 April 2013)

Subjects & Themesback to top

• Landscapes
• Shadows