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Alexander Melville Bell was born on March 1, 1819, in Edinburgh, the younger son of Alexander Bell, professor of elocution in London.
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Excerpt from Elocutionary Manual: The Principles of Elocution; With Exercises and Notations for Pronunciation, Intonation, Emphasis, Gesture and Emotional Expression Two years ago the Author published his New Elucidation of the Principles of Speech and Elocution, - a work which has been so favourably received among Critics, and so rapidly dis posed of, that he has been induced to prepare an elocutionary manual adapted for use in classes, as well as for private students. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Alexander Melville Bell was born on March 1, 1819, in Edinburgh, the younger son of Alexander Bell, professor of elocution in London.
Alexander was mainly educated at home.
Like his elder brother who had already settled in Dublin, Alexander followed the family profession and in 1843 established himself in Edinburgh. The father and two sons were the leading teachers of the science of correct speech at the three capitals of England, Ireland, and Scotland for the ensuing twenty-two years. At that time teachers of elocution, especially those who undertook to cure stammering and other defects of utterance, made a great mystery of their art. Bell, with the candor and truthfulness that were a marked feature of his family, declared that there was no mystery about it except such as arose from the little attention that had been paid to the science of speech. At the outset he published his methods.
Alexander early conceived the idea of a physiological alphabet which would furnish to the eye a complete guide to the production of any oral sound. This idea he carefully worked out during the next twenty-three years and gave to the world in his Visible Speech: the Science of Universal Alphabetics (1867). In his physiological or pictorial alphabet "each symbol means a definite position of the organs of speech, which, if correctly assumed, produces a definite result. Every sound possible for the human voice can be represented by these symbols. There is, therefore, no language or variation of language in dialect, or even individual idiosyncrasy of utterance, which cannot be represented by Visible Speech and reproduced vocally by anyone knowing the system. "
Some of its more important practical uses are in the recording of unwritten languages and disappearing dialects, the correction of defects of vocal utterance, and the training of oral teachers of the deaf. It is upon this universal alphabet that Alexander Melville Bell's claim to lasting remembrance chiefly rests. Fourteen of his forty-nine published works relate to this subject. His books on elocution remain the standard authority, more than 250 editions of The Principles of Elocution and The Standard Elocutionist having been printed.
After the death of his father Bell moved to London, where he lived for five years, lecturing on elocution in University College and giving public readings from Shakespeare and Dickens. In 1868 he visited America to give a course of lectures before the Lowell Institute of Boston and in other cities of the United States and Canada. Two years later he returned to deliver a second course of twelve lectures before the Lowell Institute, and the following year had the honor of presenting a third and similar course. He settled in Brantford, Ontario, Canada, in 1870 and later held the professorship of elocution in Queens College, Kingston. When his distinguished son, Alexander Graham Bell, permanently located in Washington, D. C. , the father was persuaded to move to the same city (1881), and at the age of seventy-eight he was admitted to American citizenship, January 12, 1897. He died in Washington in 1905.
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Alexander Bell was a memeber of the Educational Institute of Scotland, the Royal Scottish Society of Arts, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, etc.
Alexander Melville Bell was twice married: to Eliza Grace Symonds in 1844, and to Mrs. Harriet Guess Shibley in 1898.