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Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell CBE (14 July 1868 – 12 July 1926) was an English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, and archaeologist.She spent much of her life exploring and mapping the Middle East, and became highly influential to British imperial policy-making as an Arabist due to her knowledge and contacts built up through extensive travels.
The film chronicles the work of Gertrude Bell, an Englishwoman and archeologist, living in Arabia in the early 20th century. Her work helped to shape the Arab nation in the aftermath of World War I and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, including the partition of the Ottoman Empire and establishment of the Kingdom of Iraq.
At the Works: Study of a Manufacturing Town, Middlesbrough (1907) The Heart of Yorkshire (1923) a pageant play, written as part of the fundraising efforts towards the restoration of York Minster's Five Sisters window [5] The Letters of Gertrude Bell, Volume 1 (1927) The Letters of Gertrude Bell, Volume II (1927) French Without Tears: Book I
The School was founded in 1932 as a memorial to the life and works of Gertrude Bell. Bell was passionate about archaeology and bequeathed £6,000 for its founding when she died in 1926. Further fundraising in 1929 added £14,000, and although the Great Depression left the fund depleted, the school was established in 1932. [2]
English writer Gertrude Bell in Iraq, 1909 Belgian Berthe Cabra Japanese climber Junko Tabei Hungarian geographer Béláné Mocsáry Canadian-born Aloha Wanderwell. The women listed below are or were explorers or world travelers. They include naturalists, sailors, mountain climbers, dog sledders, swimmers, pilots, and underwater explorers.
Her book, Desert Queen; The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell (1996), has been named by The New York Times as a notable book of the year and translated into twelve languages. [6] Her other books include Chanel: Her Style and Her Life (1998), Seraglio: A Novel (2003), and The Richest Woman in America: Hetty Green in the Gilded Age (2012).
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Mary "Molly" Katherine, Lady Trevelyan, OBE (née Bell; 12 October 1881 – 8 October 1966) was an English political hostess and voluntary worker. She was an active member of several organisations and she was on the founding committee of the Council for the Preservation of Rural England .