GB
's father
, a widower for about five years, married novelist and playwright Florence Olliffe
.
Wallach, Janet. Desert Queen. Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 1996, .
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Winstone, Harry Victor Frederick. Gertrude Bell. J. Cape, 1978.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Gertrude Bell
GB
's father, Hugh Bell
, was an industrialist who was later knighted. After her mother's death Gertrude developed a very close relationship with her father.
Wallach, Janet. Desert Queen. Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 1996, .
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Literary responses
Gertrude Bell
Commentator James Buchan
calls her letters to her father
and stepmother one of the great correspondences of the past century.
Buchan, James. “Miss Bell’s fateful lines in the sand”. Guardian Weekly, Vol.
168
, No. 13, 20–26 Mar. 2003, p. 20.
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Occupation
Gertrude Bell
GB
wrote to her father
, I had a well-spent morning at the office making out the southern desert frontier of the [sic] Iraq.
qtd. in
Buchan, James. “Miss Bell’s fateful lines in the sand”. Guardian Weekly, Vol.
