Beschreibung (Langtext)

Gertrude Bell is known as The Queen of the Desert and a film based on her life is due for release in 2015. A woman far ahead of her time, Gertrude gained a first from Oxford. She took an interest in politics before embarking on her one-woman travels across the Middle East. She chronicled her journeys through Iraq, Persia, Syria and her important diplomatic work, with characteristic wit and incisiveness. Sadly her personal life was marred by losing the love of her life from which she never recovered. She died in 1926 of an overdose of sleeping pills.