Gypsy in the Sun: The Transnational Life of Rosita Forbes

Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 273-285

  Teo, Hsu Ming ^a  

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Author keywords

British Woman; Daily Telegraph; Life Story; Middle East; Modern Woman

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EID: 84905998560     PISSN: 26346273     EISSN: 26346281     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1057/9780230277472_22     Document Type: Chapter

References (37)

1. Rosita Forbes (1944) Gypsy in the Sun (New York: E. Dutton & Co.), p. 39.
2. Ibid., p. 197.
3. Ibid., p. 70.
4. See Georgina Howell (2008) Gertrude Bell Queen of the Desert Shaper of Nations (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux); Jane Geniesse (2001) Passionate Nomad The Life of Freya Stark (New York: Modern Library).
5. Rosita Forbes (1928) Adventure Being a Gipsy Salad—Some Incidents, Excitements and Impressions of Twelve Highly-Seasoned Years (London: Cassell).
6. Rosita Forbes (1946) Appointment with Destiny (London: Cassell).
7. Anthony Giddens (1991) Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in Late-Modernity (Cambridge: Polity Press), pp. 5, 53.
8. Luke Desforges (2000) ‘Traveling the World: Identity and Travel Biography’ Annals of Tourism Research 27:4, 932.
9. Kathryn Tidrick (1989) Heart Beguiling Araby The English Romance with Arabia (London: I.B. Tauris & Co.).
10. Rosita Forbes (1919) Unconducted Wanderers (London: John Lane, The Bodley Head); (1921) The Secret of the Sahara Kufara (London: Cassell); (1931) Conflict Angora to Afghanistan (London: Cassell); (1933) Eight Republics in Search of a Future: Evolution and Revolution in South America (London: Cassell); (1937) Forbidden Road—Kabul to Samarkand (London: Cassell); (1935) Women Called Wild (London: Grayson & Grayson).
11. Forbes Gypsy in the Sun, pp. 12, 15.
12. Barbara Caine (1994) ‘Feminist Biography and Feminist History’ Women’s History Review 3:3, 250.
13. Forbes Gypsy in the Sun, p. 11.
14. Ibid., p. 13.
15. Robert Boucard (1926) Les dessous de l’espionnage anglais (Paris: Editions Henry Etienne).
16. Forbes Gypsy in the Sun, p. 35.
17. Ibid., p. 34.
18. Christine Doran (1998) ‘Golden Marvels and Gilded Monsters: Two Women’s Accounts of Colonial Malaya’ Asian Studies Review 22:2, 189.
19. Ellen Jacobs (1998) ‘Eileen Power’s Asian Journey, 1920–21: History, Narrative, and Subjectivity’ Women’s History Review 7:3, 303–304.
20. Forbes Gypsy in the Sun, p. 99.
21. Ibid., p. 99.
22. Mary A. Procida (2002) ‘ “The Greater Part of My Life Has Been Spent in India”: Autobiography and the Crisis of Empire in the Twentieth Century’ Biography 25:1, 130–131.
23. Forbes Gypsy in the Sun, p. 42.
24. Procida ‘ “The Greater Part of My Life Has Been Spent in India”’, 143.
25. Shirley Foster (1990) Across New Worlds: Nineteenth Century Women Travellers and their Writings (London: Harvester Wheatsheaf); Sara Mills (1991) Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women’s Travel Writing and Colonialism (London: Routledge).
26. Mary A. Procida (1996) ‘A Tale Begun in Other Days: British Travelers in Tibet in the Late Nineteenth Century’ Journal of Social History 30:1, 195.
27. John Buchan (1916) Greenmantle, ch. 2 http://www.classicreader.com/read.php/sid./bookid.1248/sec.3/
28. Forbes Gypsy in the Sun, p. 38.
29. Ibid., p. 67.
30. Stephen Gundle (2002) ‘Hollywood Glamour and Mass Consumption in Postwar Italy’ Journal of Cold War Studies 4:3, 96.
31. Liz Conor (2004) The Spectacular Modern Woman: Feminine Visibility in the 1920s (Bloomington: Indiana University Press), p. 29.
32. Forbes Gypsy in the Sun, p. 102.
33. Ibid., pp. 102, 104.
34. Regions under the political jurisdiction of one nation but linguistically, culturally or historically connected to other nations.
35. Forbes Gypsy in the Sun, p. 91.
36. Ibid., p. 91.
37. Ibid., p. 36.