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Article: Gertrude Bell: the Arabian Diaries, 1913-1914.(Book Review)
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- The Middle East Women's Studies Review
- Article date:
- March 22, 2003
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Rosemary O'Brien, ed. With photographs by Gertrude Bell Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000.
"It's a bore being a woman when you are in Arabia." So Gertrude Bell expressed her frustrations in a letter addressed to Charles Hotham Montague Doughty-Wylie, a married British army officer, nephew of the famous traveler Charles Doughty, and object of her unconsummated passion. Bell was forty-five years old. Crossing the Nufud by camel on her way from Damascus to Ha'il in southern Najd, she admitted in her letter to a "severe fit of depression." What could she possibly add to the world's store of knowledge that would make the trip worthwhile? "There are two ...