Thanks to the local public library, this summer I'm embracing the life of this remarkable woman with a soaring, adventurous spirit and world-noted intellect.
"The Bells were very rich; but it wasn't money that got Gertrude a First at Oxford or helped her survive encounters with murderous tribes in the desert, or made her spy or a major in the British army or qualified her as poet, scholar, historian, mountaineer, photographer, archaeologist, gardener, linguist, and distinguished servant of the state. She was many-faceted -- in this respect comparable with those giants among mankind, Elizabeth I and Catherine the Great of Russia."
(Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations - g. howell)
This Gertie was my kind of gal.
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