Anne Olivier Bell

Arts Council Anne Popham joined the Arts Council in 1947. She was responsible for the publication of exhibition catalogues. She also escorted paintings from the Alte Pinakothek in Munich for an exhibition at the National Gallery, London.

Virginia Woolf Anne Bell assisted her husband, Quentin Bell, in his monumental biography of Virginia Woolf by compiling index cards for each month of her life, and copying Leonard Woolf's diaries. The biography was published to acclaim in 1972. Anne Bell then edited the diaries of Virginia Woolf, publishing them in five volumes starting in 1977.

She then published a book Editing Virginia Woolf's Diary, detailing her work as editor.

Charleston The Charleston Farmhouse was the country seat of the Bloomsbury group. After the death of Duncan Grant in 1978, Anne was instrumental in establishing a charitable trust to preserve the property. The artistic influence of the Bloomsbury group was fading by then, and the farmhouse itself was in a poor state of repair. It took six years of fundraising to monetise the trust.

Charleston became open to the public in the 1980s, presented in the period style of the Bloomsbury group.

Anne Bell's 2013 portrait by Eva Vermandel resides in the permanent collection of London's National Portrait Gallery.

Anne Bell lived with her husband in Firle, East Sussex. Her husband Quentin died in 1996. Anne Olivier Bell died on 18 July 2018, aged 102.

Selected works