As noted in Howell’s Gertrude Bell biography, Gertrude Bell’s extensive travels in Greater Syria, Mesopotamia, Asia Minor, and Arabia made her an expert in both the languages and the cultures of these regions.
Gertrude Bell’s accomplishments as an archaeologist are evident in her book The Thousand and One Churches, which was published in 1909 and, as pointed out in Howell’s Gertrude Bell biography, it is still referenced by scholars today.Īrchaeologist, feminist, stateswoman and Iraq’s first director of antiquities, Gertrude Bell frequently traveled where no Western woman had gone before.Perhaps Gertrude Bell’s most notable achievement-or at least her longest lasting-was her great influence over British imperial policy. Gertrude Bell was a mountaineer, a linguist, an intrepid explorer and a consummate stateswoman. Gertrude Bell would have been a remarkable woman in any age, but the fact that she lived and accomplished her feats at the end of the 19th/beginning of the 20th centuries is one of the more impressive aspects of any Gertrude Bell biography. While it is not hard to find a Gertrude Bell biography, there are few other resources available to the scholar or layperson with an interest in this most extraordinary woman. Lawrence and the swirling politics and conflicts that gave birth to the modern Middle East, it’s surprising how often these works overlook one of the key players in the process and one of Lawrence’s closest friends: Gertrude Bell.
With as many books, documentaries and Hollywood films that have focused on T.E. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007, 512 pp., 16 pp. Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations by Georgina Howell
Asher-Greve as it appeared in Biblical Archaeology Review, Jul/Aug 2008 Read the full original review by Julia M.
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