Gertrude Bell Iraq Arab Writer Museum Founder Woman Photo Postcard

WHD  This is a rarely found undated but modern origin published postcard featuring Gertrude Dbell historic Victorian English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, and archaeologist most famous for her work travels and achievements in the Middle East in this beautiful portrait with full details of her history and achievements on reverse unused and mint.

".. Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell (14 July 1868 12 July 1926) was an English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, and archaeologist. She spent much of her life exploring and mapping the Middle East, and became highly influential to British imperial policy-making as an Arabist due to her knowledge and contacts built up through extensive travels. During her lifetime, she was highly esteemed and trusted by British officials such as High Commissioner for Mesopotamia Percy Cox, giving her great influence. She participated in both the 1919 Paris Peace Conference (briefly) and the 1921 Cairo Conference, which helped decide the territorial boundaries and governments of the post War Middle East as part of the partition of the Ottoman Empire. Bell believed that the momentum of Arab nationalism was unstoppable, and that the British government should ally with nationalists rather than stand against them. Along with T. E. Lawrence, she advocated for independent Arab states in the Middle East following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, and supported the installation of Hashemite monarchies in what is today Jordan and Iraq. .."