Wallach, Janet

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Desert queen

the extraordinary life of Gertrude Bell, adventurer, adviser to kings, ally of Lawrence of Arabia
  • Wallach, Janet
1999
Biography of Gertrude Bell, a Victorian woman who sought adventure in Arab lands, writing several popular books about her travels, and becoming indispensable to Lawrence of Arabia and British intelligence during World War I and in the peace negotiations that followed.
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The richest woman in America

Hetty Green in the Gilded Age
  • Wallach, Janet
2012
A biography of nineteenth century American millionaire Hetty Green, discussing her childhood in a Quaker family in Massachusetts, and her successful career as an investor and financier in New York.
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