page_title: Gertrude Bell
hierarchical_section_title: Gertrude Bell
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo of British author and archeologist Gertrude Bell, in Babylon, Iraq.
context_page_description: Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell CBE was an English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, spy and archaeologist.
  She explored and mapped countries in the Middle East. She influenced British imperial policy-making with her knowledge and contacts. Bell travelled mainly in Greater Syria, Mesopotamia, Asia Minor, and Arabia.
  Gertrude Bell [1907]. The desert and the sown: travels in Palestine and Syria. London: Heinemann.
context_section_description: Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell CBE (14 July 1868 – 12 July 1926) was an English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, spy and archaeologist.
  She explored and mapped countries in the Middle East. She influenced British imperial policy-making with her knowledge and contacts. Bell travelled mainly in Greater Syria, Mesopotamia, Asia Minor, and Arabia.
  Gertrude Bell (1919) [1907]. The desert and the sown: travels in Palestine and Syria. London: Heinemann.
caption: Gertrude Bell in 1909
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