“ She was always surrounded by men: rich men, powerful men, diplomats, sheikhs, lovers and mentors. To picture her you only had to envision a red-haired Victorian woman with ramrod posture, piercing green eyes, a long pointed nomse and a fragile figure fashionably dressed, and, whether in London, Cairo, Baghdad or the desert, always at the center of a circle of men.
Desert Queen, The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Advisor to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia by Janet Wallace (1996), (2004) Phoenix, Prologue, p.xxv
