Desert Queen (81 page)

CHAPTER ONE

1
“
The smoke …
” Quoted in Briggs, Asa,
Victorian Cities
, New York: Harper & Row, 1963, p. 269.

2
“
a good wife …
” Colls, Robert, and Philip Dodd,
Englishness: Politics and Culture 1800–1920
, London: Croom Helm, 1986, p. 196.

3
a world graced
 … Ibid.

4
dead ravens
 … Bell, Gertrude. Letters, University of Newcastle.

CHAPTER THREE

1
“
I write sensibly …
” Bell, Gertrude. Letters to Sir Valentine Chirol, University of Durham Library, Special Collections, Palace Green Section.

CHAPTER FIVE

1
sixteenth-century German mapmakers … Koller, Teddy, and Moshe Pearlman, Jerusalem
, Jerusalem: Steimatsky’s Agency, 1972, p. 12.

2
the British were chosen
 … Morris, James,
Pax Britannica
, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1968, p. 502.

3
“
Such a moon!
” Bell, Gertrude. Diaries, University of Newcastle.

4
“
One has to walk …
” Ibid.

CHAPTER SIX

1
“
I am a Person …
” Bell, Gertrude. Diaries, University of Newcastle.

CHAPTER SEVEN

1
The great meeting
 … Morris, James,
Pax Britannica
, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1968, p. 507.

2
“
The Oriental is like …
” Bell, Gertrude,
The Desert and the Sown
, London: W. Heinemann, 1907.

3
“
It was a stormy morning …
” Ibid.

CHAPTER NINE

1
“
It’s the greatest …
” Bell, Gertrude, Letters, University of Newcastle.

2
“
I have seldom …
” Ibid.

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

1
“
damned fool thing …
” Tuchman, Barbara W.,
The Guns of August
, New York: Ballantine Books, 1994, p. 71.

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

1
“
Is sex so much? …
” Bell, Gertrude, Private Papers, University of Newcastle.

2
“
Someday I’ll tell you …
” Ibid.

3
“
I hated it …
” Ibid.

4
“
And suppose …
” Ibid.

5
“
…  there is an eternal …
” Ibid.

6
“
I can’t …
” Elizabeth Robins Collection, Series 2, Series 5, Bell Letters, Fales Library, New York University.

7
“
speaking hopelessly …
” Ibid.

8
“
I was falling …
” Ibid.

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

1
“
We saw nothing …
” Bell, Gertrude. Letters, University of Newcastle.

2
“
It has ended …
” Bell, Molly. Diaries, University of Newcastle.

3
“
The military people …
” Hogarth, David. Private Papers, St. Anthony’s College, Oxford.