Surname: Bell Forename(s): John Joy b. 7 June 1871. d. 14 November 1934. Nationality: Scottish. VIAF.
Working-class poet, novelist, editor, and journalist. Alternative signature: “J. J.
Bell.” Born in Glasgow. Father was a tobacco manufacturer. Educated at Kelvinside
Academy and the University of Glasgow. Author of poetry volume The New Noah’s Ark (1899). Worked for the Glasgow Evening Times and sub-editor of The Scots Pictorial. Chambers’s Journal ledger lists his address as Northcote, Dowanhill, Glasgow (poem published 5 February
1898; NLS Dep 341/371). Additional biographical information: Reilly, Late Victorian Poetry, p. 39.