"Gertrude Bell: The Queen of the Desert" Topic
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| Dining Room Battles | 16 Oct 2020 5:05 p.m. PST |
From Gertrude Bell's Obituary: "No woman in recent time has combined her qualities – her taste for arduous and dangerous adventure with her scientific interest and knowledge, her competence in archaeology and art, her distinguished literary gift, her sympathy for all sorts and condition of men, her political insight and appreciation of human values, her masculine vigor, hard common sense and practical efficiency – all tempered by feminine charm and a most romantic spirit." link |
 ColCampbell  | 16 Oct 2020 6:27 p.m. PST |
Very nicely done. I looked her up on-line and she was quite the antithesis of the gentile later Victorian and Edwardian woman. Jim |
| Covert Walrus | 17 Oct 2020 1:27 a.m. PST |
Just goes to show – Sterotypes about the past are as incorrect as sterotypes about the present :) Interesting character, and a fitting miniature tribute! |
| 15th Hussar | 17 Oct 2020 6:02 a.m. PST |
I respect her very much, but her efforts, admittedly aligned with others such as Lawrence, in regards to the Post WW1 Arab World she envisioned in regards to Sykes-Picot should have been thought out more. |
| Darrell B D Day | 17 Oct 2020 6:33 a.m. PST |
should have been thought out more Aye – we're all so wise in retrospect. DBDD |
| Old Wolfman | 20 Oct 2020 9:41 a.m. PST |
Read an article about her in "History Revealed" or "BBC History" a few years back. |
| marco56 | 23 Oct 2020 6:13 a.m. PST |
I purchased the movie about her.
Mark |
| Lucius | 24 Oct 2020 11:02 a.m. PST |
I do admire her as a person. But you have to admit, the lines on the map that she was so influential in drawing have been an absolute disaster. |
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