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The wide plain and the limitless world.(Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations)(Book review)
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January 1, 2008
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Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations
By Georgina Howell
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007, 481 pp., $27.50, hardcover
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Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) was hardly the first Victorian woman to hightail it out of stuffy old England in search of adventure and freedom. Poorer women emigrated to past or present British colonies, alone or in the company of lovers or husbands, while the wealthy daughters of industrialists and merchants shipped out in style to Italy, India, and Persia. Some were more serious travelers: Isabella Bird, a generation before Gertrude Bell, trekked around the Rocky Mountains; Marianne North, a ...
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