"When Gertrude Bell's uncle was appointed Minister in Tehran in 1891, she declared that the great ambition of her life was to visit Persia. Several months later, she did. And so began a lifetime of travel and a lifelong enchantment with what she saw as the romance of the East, w…
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Gertrude Bell - linguist, scholar, archaeologist, traveller and explorer. Bell was instrumental in the creation of Iraq after the First World War - its boundaries, parliament, legal system and civil service all bore Bell's imprints.
Biography of Gertrude Bell (1868-1926), scholar, linguist, archaeologist, traveler and 'Orientalist.
"Revered or reviled, Gertrude Bell was a commanding figure: scholar, linguist, archeologist, traveller and "orientalist". Belonging to the tradition of the great British Middle East enthusiasts of the early 20th century, she explored the Ottoman Empire during and after World War…
"Revered or reviled, Gertrude Bell was a commanding figure: scholar, linguist, archeologist, traveller and 'orientalist'. A remarkable woman in male-dominated Edwardian society, she shunned convention by eschewing marriage and family for an academic career and the extensive trav…