Stephen Southwold


Stephen Southwold attended St. Mark's College, Chelsea and worked as a schoolmaster. He served in the Royal Army Medical Corps from 1914 to 1919, then returned to teaching. He became a prolific British writer. Born Stephen Henry Critten, he used a number of pseudonyms, eventually changing his name to one of them, Stephen Southwold. He most often wrote as Neil Bell and also wrote as Miles, Stephen Green, S. H. Lambert, and Paul Martens.
He was born in Southwold, Suffolk. His change of name was apparently a reaction against his father. Initially writing a number of science fiction books, he later concentrated on conventional novels. He also wrote a large number of short stories, many of them under the Southwold name being for children. Bell also wrote several science fiction novels, including The Seventh Bowl, The Gas War Of 1940, and the end of the world story The Lord of Life. Who Walk in Fear is a collection of horror stories.

Works

  • The Common Day poetry
  • In Between Stories as Stephen Southwold
  • Listen Children: Stories for Spare Moments as Stephen Southwold
  • Once Upon a Time Stories as Stephen Southwold
  • Ten-Minute Tales as Stephen Southwold
  • The Children's Play Hour Book editor, and sequels
  • Listen Again Children! as Stephen Southwold
  • Happy Families as Stephen Southwold
  • Man's Great Adventure as Stephen Southwold
  • The Seventh Bowl as Miles, then Neil Bell
  • True Tales of an Old Shellback as Stephen Southwold
  • Precious Porcelain as Neil Bell
  • Valiant Clay also as The Gas War of 1940, as Miles, then Neil Bell
  • Life and Andrew Otway as Neil Bell
  • The Disturbing Affair of Noel Blake as Neil Bell
  • The Marriage Of Simon Harper as Neil Bell
  • The Lord of Life novel, as Neil Bell
  • Bredon And Sons as Neil Bell
  • Fiddlededee: A Medley of Stories as Stephen Southwold
  • Death Rocks the Cradle: A Strange Tale as Paul Martens, then as Neil Bell
  • The Truth About My Father as Paul Martens, then as Neil Bell
  • Winding Road as Neil Bell
  • The Days Dividing as Neil Bell
  • The Son of Richard Carden as Neil Bell
  • Mixed Pickles stories, as Neil Bell
  • Animal Stories as Stephen Southwold
  • More Animal Stories as Stephen Southwold
  • Forty More Tales as Stephen Southwold
  • Crocus as Neil Bell
  • Lucky Dip as Neil Bell
  • Strange Melody as Neil Bell
  • The Book of Animal Tales as Stephen Southwold
  • The Tales of Joe Egg as Stephen Southwold
  • Testament of Stephen Fane as Neil Bell
  • Pinkney's Garden
  • Precious Porcelain as Neil Bell
  • Love And Julian Farne as Neil Bell
  • One Came Back as Neil Bell
  • The Smallways Rub Along as Neil Bell
  • Now For A Story as Stephen Southwold
  • Not A Sparrow Falls as Neil Bell
  • The Abbot's Heel as Neil Bell
  • So Perish The Roses: a novel of the life of Charles Lamb as Neil Bell
  • The Desperate Pursuit as Neil Bell
  • The Spice of Life as Neil Bell
  • Peek's Progress as Neil Bell
  • The Tower of Darkness as Neil Bell
  • Cover His Face: Thomas Chatterton as Neil Bell
  • Child of My Sorrow as Neil Bell
  • A Portrait of Gideon Power as S. H. Lambert, later as Neil Bell
  • The Handsome Langleys as Neil Bell
  • Life Comes to Seathorpe as Neil Bell
  • A Romance in Lavender as Stephen Southwold
  • Alpha and Omega stories, as Neil Bell
  • Forgive Us Our Trespasses as Neil Bell
  • The Governess at Ashburton Hall as Neil Bell
  • Ten Short Stories
  • Immortal Dyer. A Novel of the Life and Times of Jeff Lister, King of the Commons, the Pride of Norfolk as Stephen Southwold
  • Who Was James Carey? as Neil Bell
  • Scallywag stories
  • Forty Stories as Stephen Southwold
  • I am Legion as Neil Bell
  • Three Pairs of Heels as Neil Bell
  • The Inconstant Wife as Stephen Southwold
  • The Dark Page as Neil Bell
  • One of the Best as Neil Bell
  • Life Comes to Seathorpe as Stephen Southwold
  • Who Walk in Fear short novels, as Stephen Southwold
  • The Secret Life of Miss Lottinger novella and stories, as Neil Bell
  • Many Waters as Neil Bell
  • Tell Me Another as Stephen Southwold
  • My Writing Life autobiography
  • The Custody of the Child
  • The Flowers of the Forest as Neil Bell
  • Luke Bramwhite – His Joyous Life and Happy Death as Neil Bell
  • The Captain's Woman: and other Stories as Neil Bell
  • All My Days as Neil Bell
  • Thy First Begotten as Neil Bell
  • What No Woman Knows as Neil Bell
  • Mrs Rawleigh and Mrs Paradock as Neil Bell
  • The Black Sheep as Neil Bell
  • Forty Stories as Neil Bell
  • At the Sign of the Unicorn as Neil Bell
  • Simon Dale
  • Corridor of Venus as Neil Bell
  • My Brother Charles as Neil Bell
  • 13 Piccadilly ) as Neil Bell
  • The Endless Chain as Neil Bell
  • The Narrow Edge as Neil Bell
  • Village Casanova and other Stories as Neil Bell
  • I Paint Your World as Neil Bell
  • The Story of Leon Barentz as Neil Bell
  • The Ninth Earl of Whitby as Neil Bell
  • Missing from Home as Neil Bell
  • The House at the Crossroads
  • Love and Desire and Hate stories, as Neil Bell
  • Hey, Diddle Diddle as Stephen Southwold
  • Ten Old Men as Stephen Southwold
  • The Last Bus and other stories
  • The Sea Horses and other stories
  • Yesterday and Long Ago, as Stephen Southwold