Adventures Of A Desert Queen: A Meeting with Gertrude Bell

Adapted and performed by Betsey Means

Gertrude Bell was a lone woman in the Middle East, a famous author who wrote about the Arabs , an acknowledged archaeologist, a courageous traveler who dined with china and crystal and dressed in extravagant clothes. Bell was the first woman to be taken into the British Imperial Service as Oriental Secretary. She was the most powerful woman in the British Empire in the years after WWI. She was also instrumental in the founding of the modern state of Iraq.