![]() ![]() It goes way beyond the ‘Queen of the Desert’ and its Hollywood cardboard cut-out characters. My project asks questions of Bell’s relationships and looks for answers in her childhood. I’m following some fascinating leads regarding Bell’s formative years and relationships with unavailable (married) men, including the man given a curious prominence in her Wikipedia entry, the diplomat Sir Frank Swettenham. As I noted in a previous blog post on this website, in my mind the movie is so flawed and lamentable that there aren’t enough rotten tomatoes in the world to throw at it. I’m working on material which will be an unashamed antidote to Werner Herzog’s film about Gertrude Bell, ‘Queen of the Desert’. Gertrude Bell Love Through A Different Lens ![]()
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