 He then devoted his life to literature, editing the "Cornhill Magazine", while still serving on many public and private committees.Gorell was involved with many charities, particularly those that were educational or literary in nature.He was chairman of the Teachers' Registration Council (1922–1935), King's College Hospital (1929–1933), and of Dulwich College and Alleyn's School (1949–1959), and president of the National Council for the Unmarried Mother and her Child (1928–1962), the Royal Society of Teachers (1929–1935), and of the Royal Literary Fund (1951–1962).