People


  Gertrude Bell 1868-1926  - England, Syria, Iraq

Encyclopedia Entries

Columbia Encyclopedia

Wikipedia


Questions of 

Mesopotamian Archaeology, Founding of Iraq


Reading

Safar Nameh (1894), a volume of travel sketches; 

Poems from the Divan of Hafiz (1897); 

The Desert and the Sown (1907) on her Syrian travels; 

The Thousand and One Churches (1909) on excavating Byzantine archaeological sites; 

Amurath to Amurath (1911) on travels in Turkey; 

The Palace and the Mosque of Ukhaidir (1914).


Writing available on the net


Commentaries

The Gertrude Bell Project

Smithsonian Magazine

Gertrude Bell The Arabian Diaries, 1913 - 1914Rosemary O'Brien, Editor Syracuse University Press

See her Earlier Letters (ed. by E. Richmond, 1937) and Letters (new ed. 1947); biographies by J. Kamm (1956) and A. Northgrave (1958).


Quotations