Record Number: 30879
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Spent the morning reading Father's Iron and Steel address and watching the camp being pitched and correcting my German [see additional information] proofs. After lunch went with Haidar and the invaluable Hassan to the top of the hill E of the town where there is a church.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:16 May 1907
Country:Turkey
Timemorning
Place:city: archaeological site of Bin Bir Kilisse, near Konya
county: Central Anatolia,
other location: camp
(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Female
Date of Birth:16 Jul 1868
Socio-Economic Group:Gentry
Occupation:Linguist, traveller, archaeologist, yet to take up formal occupation as political advisor
Religion:originally Christian (Anglican) by now declared atheist
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:Turkey
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Presidential Address
Genre:Politics, Technology, Address to Iron and Steel Institute, Middlesborough, on being elected President
Form of Text:Print: Unknown
Publication DetailsListed as having been reprinted from Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute No. 1, for 1907.
Provenancen/a
Source Information:
Record ID:30879
Source - Manuscript:Other
Information:
Gertrude Bell Archive Newcastle University Library http://www.gerty.ncl.ac.uk
Additional Information:
Diary entry 16 May 1907 http://www.gerty.ncl.ac.uk/diary_details.php?diary_id=562
Citation:
Gertrude Bell Archive Newcastle University Library http://www.gerty.ncl.ac.uk, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=30879, accessed: 05 October 2024
Additional Comments:
The proofs referred to in passing in this evidence are those of the German translation of her book "The Desert and the Sown" (1907) published as "Durch die Wüsten und Kulturstätten Syriens: reiseschilderungen" (Leipzig: Otto Spamer, 1908)