Bibliography

PUBLISHED WORKS BY GERTRUDE BELL

Safar Nameh, Persian Pictures. Published anonymously, Bentley, London, 1894.

Persian Pictures. London: Benn, 1928, and Cape, 1937.

Poems from the Divan of Hafiz. Heinemann, London, 1897. Reprinted with foreword by Sr. E. Denison Ross, 1928.

“Islam in India,” Nineteenth Century and After, vol. 60, 1906.

“Notes on a Journey through Cilicia and Lycaonia,” Revue Archélogique, VII, 1906–7.

The Desert and the Sown. Beacon Press, 1987. Originally published in London by Heinemann, 1907.

The Thousand and One Churches (with Sir William Ramsay). Hodder and Stoughton, 1909.

“The Vaulting System at Ukhaidir,” Journal of Hellenic Studies, XXX, 1910.

“Churches and Monasteries of the Tur Abdin and Neighbouring Districts,” Amida. Heidelberg, 1910 (see Berchem and Strzygwski); included in Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Architektur, no. 9, Heidelberg, 1913.

Amurath to Amurath. London: Heinemann, 1911.

“Damascus,” Blackwood’s Magazine, vol. 189, 1911.

“Asiatic Turkey under the Constitution,” Blackwood’s Magazine, vol. 190, 1911.

“Postroad through the Syrian Desert,” Blackwood’s Magazine, vol. 190, 1911.

Palace and Mosque at Ukhaidir. Clarendon Press, 1914.

The Arabs of Mesopotamia. Published anonymously, Basra: Government Press, 1918.

Review of the Civil Administration of Mesopotamia. Cmd. 1061, HMSO, London, 1920.

“Great Britain and Iraq: An Experiment in Anglo-Asiatic Relations,” published anonymously. The Round Table, London, 1924.

The Arab War. Confidential information for GHQ Cairo from Gertrude L. Bell. Dispatches for the Arab Bulletin. Introduction by Sir Kinahan Cornwallis. London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1940.

PRIVATE WORKS OF GERTRUDE BELL

Common Place Books

Gertrude Bell Diary, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, U.K. The Robinson Library, Special Collections Department.

Gertrude Bell Diary for Doughty-Wylie, 1913–1914, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, U.K. The Robinson Library, Special Collections Department.

Gertrude Bell Letters, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, U.K. The Robinson Library, Special Collections Department.

Letters to Sir Valentine Chirol, University of Durham, University Library, Palace Green Section, Special Collections.

Gertrude Bell Papers, Royal Geographic Society, London, Nov. 1916.

Gertrude Bell Private Papers, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, U.K. The Robinson Library, Special Collections Department.

Gertrude Bell Photography, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Department of Archaeology, Photographic Collection.

OTHER PEOPLE’S PRIVATE PAPERS

Bell Letters, The Fales Library, N.Y.U. Library, Elizabeth Robins Collection, Series 2 and 5.

Bell, Molly, Diaries, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, The Robinson Library, Special Collections.

Burgoyne, Elizabeth, Private Papers, West Yorkshire Archives, Colverdale Central Library, Halifax, West Yorkshire, U.K.

Hogarth, David, Private Papers, St. Anthony’s at Oxford.

Ireland, Philip. Private Diary. Middle East Institute, Washington, D.C., 1934.

Lawrence, T. E., Letters, Karachi, 1927.

OFFICIAL PAPERS

Arab Bureau Papers, 1911–1919, (from Public Records Office, London). Library of Congress, Microfilm #05081

Arab Bureau Papers. Princeton University Library, Microfilm #06335.

Documents on British Foreign Policy, 1919–1939. Edited by E. L. Woodward and Rohan Butler, London, 1952. Middle East Institute, Washington, D.C.

Foreign Office Papers, FO 882/2 and 882/14. Official Papers, War Office. Whitehall, Sept. 9, 1914. Public Records Office, London.

Memo from Gertrude Bell. India Office Records (R/15/6/34), Office of the Civil Commission, Feb. 23, 1920.

Official Papers, War Office. Whitehall, Sept. 9, 1914.

Report on Middle East Conference in Cairo and Jerusalem (Secret). CAB 24/126, June 1921.

Telegrams (Secret) from Baghdad to India Office. From files of Philip Ireland, 1918–1919.

PERIODICALS AND NEWSPAPERS

Antiquity Magazine, Hill, Stephen, 1976.

Birmingham Gazette, July 14, 1926.

Daily Graphic, July 14, 1926.

Daily Mail, July 13, 1926.

Egyptian Gazette, March 1921.

Historical Series of the Reformed Church in America

—Van Ess, Dorothy and John, “Pioneers in the Arab World,” no.3, William B. Erdmans, Michigan, 1974.

Illustrated London News, George C. Leighton, London.

John O’ London’s Weekly, Sept. 12, 1931.

Journal of the Central Asian Society.

—Curzon, Earl of Kedleston, Annual Dinner of CAS, Speech by President of Society, Oct. 12, 1920, vol. 8, part 1, 1921.

—Sheppard, E. W., Capt., “Some Military Aspects of the Mesopotamia Problem,” Oct. 21, 1920, vol. 8, part 1, 1921.

—Wilson, Arnold, “Mesopotamia: 1914–21,” April 15, 1921, vol. 8, part 3, 1921.

London Times

—De Blowitz, Henri Stephan Opper. “Une Course a Constantinople,” October, 1883.

—August 1908

—May 4, 1915

—March 24, 1921

—July 13, 1926

—July 14, 1926

—July 21, 1926

—July 31, 1926

London Times Literary Supplement

—Jan. 13, 1910

—Jan. 12, 1911

Murray’s Magazine,

—Stewart, C. E., “Petroleum or Rock Oil,” vol. 1, Jan.–June, 1889, London.

The New Yorker

—Pfaff, William, “The Absence of Empire,” August 10, 1992.

New York Times

—Harrison, Marguerite, “Obituary regarding 1916–1917,” July 18, 1926, also March 6, 1924.

New York University Journal of International Law and Politics

—Khadduri, Majid, “Iraq’s Claim to the Sovereignty of Kuwait,” Fall 1990.

North American Review

—Courtney, Janet

Observer

—Raban, Johnathon, Oct. 15, 1978.

—Nicolson, Harold, July 30, 1961.

Poetics Today

—Baram, Amatzia, “A Case of An Imported Identity: The Modernizing Secular Ruling Elites of Iraq and the Conception of Mesopotamian-Inspired Territorial Nationalism 1922–1992,” Summer 1994.

Saturday Evening Post

—Lansing, Robert, “The Big Four of the Peace Conference,” March 12, 1921.

United Empire

—Cox, Sir Percy, Speech on Iraq, vol. 20, March 1929.

The World Today

—MacMunn, George, Lt-General Sir, “Gertrude Bell and T. E. Lawrence: The Other Side of their Stories,” November–December 1927.

GERTRUDE BELL BIOGRAPHIES

Bell, Florence. Letters of Gertrude Bell, vols. 1 and 2. London: Ernest Benn Ltd., 1927.

Burgoyne, Elizabeth. Gertrude Bell, vols. 1 and 2. London: Ernest Benn, 1961.

Goodman, Susan. Gertrude Bell. London: Berg Publishers, 1985.

Kamm, Josephine. Daughter of the Desert: The Story of Gertrude Bell. London: Bodley Head, 1956.

Marshall, Caroline. Gertrude Bell: Her Work and Influence in the Near East 1914–1926. University of Virginia Dissertation (unpublished), 1968.

Richmond, Elsa Lady. The Earlier Letters of Gertrude Bell. London: Benn, 1937.

Ridley, M. R. Gertrude Bell. London: Blackie, 1941.

Winstone, H. V. F., Gertrude Bell. New York: Quartet Books, 1978.

GENERAL

Aldington, Richard. Lawrence of Arabia. London: Collins, 1955.

Allison, Alexander W. The Norton Anthology of Poetry, 3rd ed. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1983.

Alsor, Susan Mary. Lady Sackville. New York: Doubleday, 1978.

Antonius, George. The Arab Awakening. New York: Putnam, 1946.

Askari, Jafar Al. Memoirs of Jafar Al Askari. Surrey, England: Laam Ltd., 1988.

Baedeker, Karl. Palestine and Syria: Handbook for Travellers. Leipzig: Karl Baedeker Publishers, 1912.

Baker, Randall. King Hussein and the Kingdom of Hejaz. Cambridge, England: Oleander Press, 1979.

Barker, A. J. The Neglected War—Mesopotamia 1914–1918. London: Faber & Faber, 1967.

Benjamin, S. G. W. Persia and the Persians. London: John Murray, 1987.

Benn, Ernest. Happier Days. London: Ernest Benn, 1949.

Black, Eugene C. Victorian Culture and Society. New York: Harper & Row, 1973.

Blunt, Lady Anne and Wilfred. A Pilgrimage to Nejd, the Cradle of the Arab Race. London: J. Murray, 1881.

Boucher, Francois. 20,000 Years of Fashion. New York: Harry Abrams, 1966.

Bowman, Humphrey. Middle East Window. London: Longmans, Green, 1942.

Boyle, Andrew. Trenchard. London: Collins, 1962.

Bullard, Reader, Sir. The Camels Must Go. London: Faber & Faber, 1961.

Burton, Isabel. The Inner Life of Syria, Palestine and the Holy Land. London: H. S. King, 1875.

Busch, Briton Cooper. Britain, India and The Arabs 1914–1921. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971.

Caldwell, Mark and Kendrick, Walter. The Treasury of English Poetry. New York: Doubleday, 1984.

Chambers, John. The Devil’s Horsemen. New York: Atheneum, 1977.

Charmley, John. Lord Lloyd and the Decline of the British Empire. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1987.

Chirol, Valentine. 50 Years in a Changing World. London: Jonathan Cape, 1927.

Collier, E. C. F. A Victorian Diarist: Extracts from the Journals of Lady Mary Monkswell. London: John Murray, 1944.

Collins, Robert O. Sir Gilbert Clayton: An Arabian Diary. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969.

Colls, Robert and Dodd, Philip. Englishness: Politics and Culture 1800–1920. London: Croom Helm, 1986.

Cook, Roy J. One Hundred and One Famous Poems. Chicago: Contemporany Books, Inc., 1958.

Courtney, Janet. Oxford Portrait Gallery. London: Chapman and Hall, 1931.

Courtney, Janet. The Women of My Time. London: L. Dickson, 1934.

De Gaury, Gerald. Three Kings in Baghdad. London: Hutchinson, 1961.

De Gaury, Gerald. Traces of Travel. London: Quartet Books, 1983.

Dickson, H. R. P. The Arab of the Desert. London: Allen and Unwin, 1949.

Dickson, H. R. P. Kuwait and Her Neighbors. London: Allen and Unwin, 1956.

Dickson, Violet. Forty Years in Kuwait. London: Allen and Unwin, 1971.

Edel, Leon. Henry James: A Life. New York: Harper & Row, 1985.

Egan, Eleanor Franklin. The War in the Cradle of the World: Mesopotamia. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1918.

Eliot, T. S. A Choice of Kipling’s Verse. London: Faber & Faber Ltd., 1990.

Ffrench, Yvonne. Six Great Englishwomen. London: Hamilton, 1953.

Fishman, Jack. My Darling Clementine. New York: David McKay Co., 1963.

Fogg, Perry. Arabistan or the Land of the Arabian Nights. London: S. Low, Marston, Low and Serle, 1875.

Forbes, Rosita. Appointment in the Sun. London: Cassell, 1949.

Forbes, Rosita. Forbidden Road: Kabul to Samarkand. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1937.

Forbes, Rosita. These Men I Knew. New York: Dutton & Co., 1940.

Fromkin, David. A Peace to End All Peace. New York: Avon Books, 1989.

Garnett, David. Letters of T. E. Lawrence. London: Spring Books, 1964.

Gellhorn, E. Cowles. McKay’s Guide to the Far East and the Middle East. New York: Van Rees Press, 1956.

George, David Lloyd. The War Memoirs of David Lloyd George, 2 vols., 1914–1915 and 1915–1916. Boston and New York: Little, Brown, 1933.

Gilbert, Martin. Churchill: A Life. New York: Henry Holt, 1991.

Gilbert, Martin. Exile and Return. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1978.

Gilbert, Martin. Winston S. Churchill, vol. 4. London: Heinemann, 1966.

Glasse, Cyril. The Concise Encyclopedia of Islam. Harper San Francisco, 1991.

Grant, Christina Phelps. The Syrian Desert. London: A & C Black, 1937.

Graves, Philip. Briton and Turk. London: Hutchinson, 1941.

Graves, Philip. The Life of Sir Percy Cox. London: Hutchinson, 1941.

Graves, Robert. Lawrence and The Arabs. London: Jonathan Cape, 1927.

Greenfield, Ellen J. One Hundred and One Classics of Victorian Verse. Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1992.

Gwynn, Stephen. The Letters and Friendships of Sir Cecil Spring Rice. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1929.

Haddawy, Husain. The Arabian Nights. New York: W. W. Norton, 1990.

Hamilton, Charles. Americans and Oil in the Middle East. Houston: Gulf Publishing, 1962.

Harrison, Marguerite. There’s Always Tomorrow. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1935.

Hogarth, David, Dr. Speech at the Royal Geographic Society, 1927.

Hopwood, Derek. Tales of Empire. London: I. B. Taruis, 1989.

Hourani, A. H. Great Britain and the Arab World. London: J. Murray, 1945.

Hourani, A. H. A History of the Arab People. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1991.

House, Edward M., and Charles Seymour. What Really Happened at Paris. New York: Charles Scribner’s, 1921.

Howell, Georgina. In Vogue. New York: Schocken, 1976.

Hudson, Michael. Arab Politics: The Search for Legitimacy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977.

Ireland, Philip. Iraq. London: Jonathan Cape, 1937.

Jalland, Pat. Women, Marriage and Politics 1860–1914. London: Clarendon Press, 1986.

James, Lawrence. The Golden Warrior. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1990.

Jolliffee, John. Raymond Asquith: Life and Letters. London: Century, 1980.

Kadourie, Elie. England and the Middle East. Hassocks, Sussex: Harvester Press, 1978.

Kaplan, Robert D. The Arabist: The Romance of an American Elite. New York: The Free Press, 1993.

Kemp, Geoffrey, and John Maurer. Projection of Power, The Logistics of Pax Britannica, Lessons for America. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1982.

Keyes, Roger, Sir. The Fight for Gallipoli. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1941.

Khadduri, Majid. Independent Iraq 1932–1958. London: Oxford University Press, 1960.

Klieman, Aaron S. Foundations of British Policy in the Arab World. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1971.

Kollek, Teddy, and Moshe Pearlman. Jerusalem. Jerusalem: Steimatsky’s Agency Limited, 1972.

Lawrence, A. W. T. E. Lawrence by His Friends. London: Jonathan Cape, 1937.

Lawrence, M. R. The Home Letters of T. E. Lawrence and His Brothers. Oxford: Blackwell, 1954.

Leary, Lewis G. Syria, The Land of Lebanon. New York: McBride Nast and Co., 1913.

Lees-Milne, James. Harold Nicolson, A Biography, 1886–1929. London: Chatto & Windus, 1980.

Lloyd, Seton. Ruined Cities of Iraq. London: Oxford University Press, 1942.

Locher, A. With Star and Crescent. Philadelphia: Aetna Publishing Co., 1889.

Longrigg, Stephen. Oil in the Middle East. London: Oxford University Press, 1968.

Lyell, Thomas. The Ins and Outs of Mesopotamia. London: A. M. Philpot, 1923.

Mack, John E. A Prince of Our Disorder. Boston and New York: Little, Brown, 1976.

Manchester, William. The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill—Visions of Glory, 1874–1932.

Boston and New York: Little, Brown, 1983.

Marlowe, John. Arab Nationalism and British Imperialism. London: Cresset Press, 1961.

Marlowe, John. Late Victorian: The Life of Sir Arnold Talbot Wilson. London: Cresset Press, 1967.

Mauger, Thierry. The Ark of the Desert. Paris: Interpublications, 1991.

Mee, Charles L., Jr. The End of Order. New York: Dutton, 1980.

Meinertzhagen, Colonel R. Middle East Diary 1917–1956. London: Cresset Press, 1959.

Mejcher, Helmut. Imperial Quest for Oil: Iraq 1910–28. London: Ithaca Press, 1976.

Melman, Billie. Women’s Orients: English Women and the Middle East, 1718–1918. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992.

Monroe, Elizabeth. Britain’s Moment in the Middle East. London: Chatto & Windus, 1963.

Monroe, Elizabeth. Philby of Arabia. London: Faber & Faber, 1973.

Moorehouse, Geoffrey. India Britannica. London: Paladin Books, 1984.

Morris, James. Farewell the Trumpets. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978.

Morris, James. The Hashemite Kings. New York: Pantheon, 1959.

Morris, James. Pax Britannica. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1968.

Mustard, Sayid Ghulam. Cross in the Subcontinent. Karachi: Pakistan Publishing House, 1961.

Nicolson, Harold. Diaries and Letters 1930–1939, ed. by Nigel Nicolson. New York: Atheneum, 1966

Nochlin, Linda. The Politics of Vision. New York: Harper & Row, 1989.

Payne, Ronald. Private Spies. London: Arthur Barrer, Ltd.

Peterson, Jeanne M. Family, Love, and Work in the Lives of Victorian Gentlewomen. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989.

Pettigren, Jane. An Edwardian Childhood. Boston and New York: Little, Brown, 1992.

Philby, H. St. J. B. Arabian Days. London, 1948.

Philby, H. St. J. B. Arabian Oil Ventures. Washington, D.C.: The Middle East Institute, 1964.

Philby, H. St. J. B. Arabian Jubilee. London: Robert Hale Ltd., 1954.

Raswan, Carl R. Black Tents of Arabia. New York: Creative Age Press, 1947.

Rich, Paul. Arab War Lords and Iraqi Star Gazers. Cambridge, England: Allborough Publishing, 1992.

Rihani, Ameen. Ibn Sa’oud of Arabia. London: Constable & Co., 1928.

Roosevelt, Kermit. War in the Garden of Eden. New York: Scribner’s, 1920.

Rosen, Friedrich. Oriental Memories of a German Diplomatist. London: Methuen, 1930.

Rosenbaum, S. P. Victorian Bloomsbury, vol. 1. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1987.

Sachar, Howard. The Emergence of the Middle East, 1914–1924. New York: Knopf, 1969.

Sackville-West, Vita. Passenger to Teheran. New York: Moyerbell Ltd., 1990.

Said, Edward. Orientalism. New York: Random House, 1978.

Sanders, Ronald. The High Walls of Jerusalem. New York: Holt Rinehart & Winston, 1983.

Schulkind, Jeanne. Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976.

Seabrook, W. B. Adventures in Arabia. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1927.

Searight, Sarah. The British in the Middle East. London: East-West Publications, 1979.

Showker, Kay. Fodor’s Egypt. New York: David McKay Co., 1979.

Sluglett, Peter. Britain in Iraq, 1914–32. London: Ithaca Press, 1962.

Stark, Freya. The Arab Island. New York: Knopf, 1945.

Stevenson, Frances. Lloyd George: A Diary. New York: Harper & Row, 1971.

Stewart, Desmond. T. E. Lawrence. New York: Hamish Hamilton, 1977.

Stocking, George W. Middle East Oil. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1970.

Storrs, Ronald. Orientations. London: Nicholson and Watson, 1943.

Tabachnick, Stephen. The T. E. Lawrence Puzzle. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1984.

Tarbush, Mohammad. The Role of the Military in Politics, A Case Study of Iraq to 1941. London: KPI, 1982.

Thackeray, William Makepeace. Cornhill to Grand Cairo. Heathfield, East Sussex: Cockbird Press, 1991.

Thomas, Bertram. Alarms and Excursions in Arabia. London: Allen & Unwin, 1931.

Thomas, Lowell. With Lawrence in Arabia. Garden City: Garden City Publishing, 1924.

Thomas, Margaret. Two Years in Palestine and Syria. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1899.

Thompson, Walter Henry. Assignment: Churchill. New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, 1955.

Trager, James. The People’s Chronology. New York: Holt Rinehart Winston, 1979.

Tuchman, Barbara. The Proud Tower. New York: Macmillan, 1966.

Vaczek, Louis, and Gail Buckland. Travelers in Ancient Lands. Boston and New York: Little, Brown, 1981.

Van Der Mëulen and Von Wissmann. Hadromout. Leyden: E. J. Brill, 1932.

Villars, Jean Beraud. T. E. Lawrence. New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1959.

Ward, Philip. Ha’il. Cambridge, England: Oleander Press, 1983.

West, Rebecca. 1900. New York: Viking Press, 1982.

Westrate, Bruce. The Arab Bureau, British Policy in the Middle East, 1916–1920. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992.

Wilcox, R. Turner. The Mode in Costume. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1958.

Wilson, Arnold T. Loyalties, Mesopotamia, 1904–1917. London: Oxford University Press, 1930.

Wilson, Arnold T. Mesopotamia, 1917–1920, A Clash of Loyalties. London: Oxford University Press, 1931.

Wilson, Jeremy. Lawrence of Arabia. New York: Atheneum Press, 1990.

Winstone, H. V. F. The Illicit Adventure. London: Jonathan Cape, 1982.

Winstone, H. V. F. Leachman: OC Desert. London: Quartet Books, 1982.

Yardley, Michael. A Biography, T. E. Lawrence. New York: Stein & Day, 1985.

Young, Gavin. Iraq: Land of Two Rivers. London, Collins, 1980.

Young, Gavin. Return to the Marshes. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1989.

Young, Geoffrey Winthrop. Editor Mountain Craft. London, Methuen and Co., 1920.

Young, Hubert Sir, Major. The Independent Arab. London, J. Murray, 1933.

OTHER

The Grand Cause, Film made by Iraqi Government (courtesy Nizar Hamdoon, Iraqi Ambassador to United Nations). 1982

Karabel, Zachary. The King Makers: Faisal and the Creation of Iraq 1918–1921. St. Anthony’s College, Oxford.

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. London: Stacey International, 1977.

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