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    T. E. Lawrence

    British Army officer, diplomat and writer (1888–1935)

    "Lawrence of Arabia" redirects here. For the 1962 film, see Lawrence of Arabia (film). For the 1989 book, see Lawrence of Arabia: The Authorised Biography of T. E. Lawrence.

    Thomas Edward LawrenceCB DSO (16 August 1888 – 19 May 1935) was a British Army officer, archaeologist, diplomat and writer known for his role during the Arab Revolt and Sinai and Palestine campaign against the Ottoman Empire in the First World War. The breadth and variety of his activities and associations, and Lawrence's ability to describe them vividly in writing, earned him international fame as Lawrence of Arabia, a title used for the 1962 film based on his wartime activities.

    Lawrence was born in Tremadog, Carnarvonshire, Wales, the illegitimate son of Sir Thomas Chapman, an Anglo-Irish landowner, and Sarah Junner, a governess in Chapman's employ. In 1896, Lawrence moved to Oxford, attending the City of Oxford High Scho

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    Fans Refuse to Desert Lawrence of Arabia : Convention: The legendary World War I hero still proves to be a powerful draw on the 60th anniversary of his death.

    To know Lawrence of Arabia is to never stop trying to know him. People collect the books he wrote and the books he read, his uniforms, his medals, and then the uniforms and medals of his comrades in war.

    The 1922 Oxford edition of “Seven Pillars of Wisdom,” Lawrence’s memoir of his World War I military exploits in the Middle East that made him a legend, is rarer than a Gutenberg Bible--and just as glass-enclosed.

    In fact, one of only six remaining editions in the world lay open under glass in the back of Friends’ Hall in the Huntington Library, where 60 experts and enthusiasts on the great Thomas Edward Lawrence--T.E. Lawrence, as he preferred--gathered Friday and Saturday to discuss the nature of Lawrence’s fame.

    The timing wasn’t accidental: Friday was the 60th anniversary of his death as the result of a motorcycle accid

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    Representations of Oriental People

    1Travel writing fryst vatten one of the most prevalent genres in English literature, the development of which coincided with the extension of the British Empire. It is firmly related to the situations in which it arose and reflects the dominant perspective of the era in which it was written. In the nineteenth century, it mirrored the British imperialist spirit which spread all over the world, causing that time to be called ‘Britain’s imperial century’ (Hyam 1). It is therefore hardly surprising that travel writing should be ‘accepted as one of the ideological apparatuses of empire’ (Anjum 199). Alison Blunt argues that the relationship between travel writing and imperialism ‘lay in utforskning and discovery, with travel writing playing an important role in the naming, and thus ‘owning’ and authoring of colonial territories . . .’ (Blunt 33). Furthermore, the influence of the images and the stereotypes created in pre-colonial travel accounts was transmitted