Record Number: 30919
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I don't think, talking of Americans, that I've told you about an old couple called Williams Jackson who have "debouchés" here as the trimmings of an American commission sent out on Persian relief work. He's a learned Professor who wrote the "Life of Zoroaster" and other works (all of which I have by good fortune read) and she's a nice old thing [...] I've made bosom friends with both of them, especially with the Professor. They brim over with universal kindness and American sentimentality — a quality quite as truly American as hard-headedness.'
Century:1850-1899, 1900-1945
Date:unknown
Country:unknown
Timen/a
Place:n/a
Type of Experience(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, information gatherer for British government, army officer and Middle East political advisor
Religion:originally Christian (Anglican) by now declared atheist
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:unknown
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Zoroaster: the prophet of ancient Iran
Genre:Other religious, Biography
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsfirst published New York and London: Columbia University Press and Macmillan, 1899,several later editions
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:30919
Source - Manuscript:Other
Information:
Gertude Bell Archive, Newcastle University http://www.gerty.ncl.ac.uk/
Additional Information:
Letter from Gertrude Bell to Florence Bell 3 October 1918 http://www.gerty.ncl.ac.uk/letter_details.php?letter_id=329
Citation:
Gertude Bell Archive, Newcastle University http://www.gerty.ncl.ac.uk/, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=30919, accessed: 16 October 2024
Additional Comments:
Jackson (1862-1937) published several other books on Iranian subjects including travel, poetry and philology. Gertrude Bell could have read these works at any time during her life as an archaeologist, traveller and student of Persian language.