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81 For Gertrude’s views on the women’s suffrage movement
and women’s rights, see Janet Hogarth, An Oxford Portrait
Gallery and The Women of My Time, BL and CEB. Elizabeth
Burgoync in Vol. I of Gertrude Bell: from her Personal Papers,
p. 274, states: ‘Much later, so her friend Janet Courtney told
me, she was amused by her own attitude.’ GLB joined the
Women’s Anti-Suffrage League in 1908.
81 Letter to Chirol, VC, CEB p. 90.
82 Queen Victoria and Edward VII, CEB pp. 54, 95.
82 Bishop Michael Fursc, BL p. 131 ct seq.
83 World voyage. Gertrude’s letters home, BL p. 131 ct seq.,
and CEB p. 137 ct seq. give a somewhat different account
of the voyage from that conveyed by the diaries of brother
and sister. For extracts from Hugo’s diary see Plugh Lowthian
Bell by FB and Elsa Richmond. Also GLB Diary 1902. UBL
dated ‘Tuesday 16 in the train’ and ‘Delhi Durbar Dec. 21’
give ecstatic accounts of the early stages of journey.

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Bertrand Russell’s recollection. See Clark, The Life of
Bertrand Kusscll, p. 78.
After publishing Persian Pictures anonymously, she put her
name to her writings, though often reluctantly. Sec BL, and
Janet Hogarth, An Oxford Portrait Gallery.
9i Family business. Mr John Bell Dixon, conversation with
author Feb. nth, 1977, and letter from Mr John Dorman
Bolckow, C.B.E., to author March 2nd, 1977. See also
sources quoted in Chapter 3.
9i Quoted description of Isaac Lowthian Bell, Birch, An
Economic History of the British Iron and Steel Industry.
92 Arrangement with Dorman Long. Letter from Mr John
Dorman Bolckow, see above.
93 Letter about her grandfather, UBL Nov. 5 th from 95
Sloane Street. See BL p. 143.
95 Mary Katherine (Molly) Bell married Charles Trevelyan,
the Labour M.P. and noted pacifist on Jan. 6th, 1904.

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94 Letter to Edward Stanley, BL.
95 Visit to Paris, BL pp. 146-8.
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