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Josephine Bell


Born
in Manchester, England, The United Kingdom
December 08, 1897

Died
January 01, 1987

Genre
Historical Fiction, Mystery, Fiction


Josephine Bell (the pseudonym of Doris Bell Collier Ball) was born into a medical family, the daughter of a surgeon, in Manchester in 1897.

She attended Godolphin School from 1910 to 1916 and then she trained at Newnham College, Cambridge until 1919. On completing her studies she was assigned to University College Hospital in London where she became M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P. in 1922 and M.B. B.S. in 1924. She married Dr. Norman Dyer Ball in 1923 and the couple had a son and three daughters.

From 1927 until 1935 the couple practised medicine together in Greenwich and London before her husband retired in 1934 and she carried on the practice on her own until her retirement in 1954.
Her husband died in 1936 and she moved to Guildford, Surrey and she ...more

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Average rating: 3.66 · 1,225 ratings · 270 reviews · 89 distinct works • Similar authors
The Port of London Murders
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3.75 avg rating — 453 ratings — published 1938 — 15 editions
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Death at Half-Term
3.27 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1939 — 10 editions
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Death at the Medical Board ...
3.57 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1944 — 8 editions
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The Carol Singers
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Easy Prey
3.45 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1959 — 14 editions
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The Upfold Witch
3.41 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1964 — 11 editions
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The Summer School Mystery
3.29 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1950 — 8 editions
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Double Doom
3.12 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1957 — 17 editions
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A Pigeon Among the Cats
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A Question of Inheritance
3.33 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1980 — 11 editions
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“Miss Pollen did not seem to be a woman given to flights of imagination; indeed ideas appeared to come to her singly, and to enter her mind after a sharp struggle with the resistance they found in their way.”
― Josephine Bell, The Port of London Murders
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