Record Number: 30879

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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

Time

morning

Place:

city: archaeological site of Bin Bir Kilisse, near Konya
county: Central Anatolia,
other location: camp

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Gertrude Bell

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

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Hugh Bell

Title:

Presidential Address

Genre:

Politics, Technology, Address to Iron and Steel Institute, Middlesborough, on being elected President

Form of Text:

Print: Unknown

Publication Details

Listed as having been reprinted from Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute No. 1, for 1907.

Provenance

n/a

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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: 19 May 2024

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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)