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Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell
1868-1926
English archeologist who explored the Middle East. Bell graduated from Oxford University. She visited an uncle employed in Tehran, Iran, and anonymously publi...
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Gertrude Bell
Born July 14, 1868, Washmgton Hall, Durham, England Died July 11, 1926, Baghdad, Iraq
Gertrude Bell traveled extensively in the Middle East at a time when few women had the opportunity...
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Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) was the best known traveler in the Middle East and Arabia in the years before World War I. The British intelligence bureau in Cairo hired her as an advisor on Arabia. After t...
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In the introduction to The Letters of Gertrude Bell (1927) Lady Florence Bell enumerates the many achievements of her late stepdaughter: "Scholar, poet, historian, archeologist, art critic, mountainee...
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In the following essay, Robins recounts a trip she took with Bell to Arabia and discusses Bell's writings on Arabia.
There is a natural freemasonry among travellers. Even he whose journeying ha...
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In the following preface to Persian Pictures, Ross discusses Bell's early impressions of Persia and includes a lengthy excerpt from a letter Bell wrote to her cousin Horace Marshall.
The letter...
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In the following essay, Swan discusses a volume of published letters Bell wrote to her father and stepmother from abroad.
There is evidently some special quality in the British national character whic...
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In the following essay, Fagan discusses Bell's influence on archeological expeditions in Persia as well as her important role in the creation of the Iraq Museum.
For all its troubles in recent ...
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Critical Essay by Elizabeth Robins
