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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Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell
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