EMH
's version of the already existing desert romance made the desert less a place of mystery and intrigue than a place made exclusively and particularly for sex.
Anderson, Rachel. The Purple Heart Throbs. Hodder and Stoughton, 1974.
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Her sexual explicitness caused much scandal...
Intertextuality and Influence
E. M. Hull
The years after World War One saw a rise in foreign travel-books by such women adventurers as Gertrude Bell
, Freya Stark
, Rosita Forbes
, and Lady Dorothy Mills
.EMH
's desert travel-book...
