Forbes, Rosita
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Name (Hebrew)
פורבס, רוזיטה
Name (Latin)
Forbes, Rosita
Name (Arabic)
فوربس، روزيتا، 1893-1967
Other forms of name
Forbes, J. Rosita Torr (Joan Rosita Torr), 1893?-1967
Forbes, Joan Rosita Torr, 1893?-1967
Forbes, R. T. (Rosita Torr), 1893?-1967
Forbesová, J. Rosita (Joan Rosita), 1893?-1967
McGrath, Joan Rosita, 1893?-1967
Torr, Joan Rosita, 1893?-1967
Megrath, Joan Rosita
Torr, Rosita Forbes
Forbes, Rosita Torr
Forbes, Joan Rosita
Forbes, Rosita (Torr), 1893-
Date of birth
1893-01-16
Date of death
1967-06-30
Associated country
Great Britain
Occupation
Authors
Novelists
Travel writers
Associated Language
eng
Gender
female
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- Contemporary authors:vol. 116 (McGrath, Joan Rosita (Torr), 1895?-1967; professionally known as Rosita Forbes; b. Jan. 16, 1895 (some sources say 1893 or 1901) in England; d. 1967; her publications include novels, autobiographies, and travel books) vol. 196 (Forbes, Rosita, 1893?-1967; b. Joan Rosita Torr, Jan. 16, 1893 (some sources say 1890 or 1895); d. June 30, 1967; married Ronald Forbes, 1911; married Arthur T. McGrath, 1921; writer, traveler, novelist, lecturer)
- Dic. of Lit. Bio., vol. 195:p. 85 (Rosita Forbes, 16 Jan. 1893?-30 June 1967) p. 86 (year of birth varies according to source: 1890, 1893, 1895; after her second marriage continued to use her first husband's surname for professional purposes)
- NUC pre-56 imprints(hdg.: Forbes, Rosita (Torr); usage: Rosita Forbes)
- OCLC, May 8, 2007(hdg.: Forbes, Rosita; Forbes, Rosita,1890-1967; Forbes, Rosita,1893-1967; Forbes, Rosita Torr; Forbes, Rosita Torr, 1893- ; Forbes, Rosita (Torr); Forbes, Rosita (Torr), Mrs.; Forbes, R. T. (Rosita Torr), 1893-; Forbes, R. T., Mrs.; Forbes, Joan Rosita; Forbes, Joan Rosita Torr, Mrs.; Forbes, J. Rosita Torr; usage: Rosita Forbes; R. Forbes; J. Rosita Forbesová)
- Oxford dictionary of national biography (online), March 16, 2020(Forbes, (Joan) Rosita (1890-1967); born 16 January 1890 at Riseholme Hall near Lincoln; went to India and Australia with first husband; traveled with Egyptian scholar and explorer Ahmad Hassanein Bey to the oasis of Kufra in the Libyan Desert in 1921; after second marriage she visited the Yemen in 1922; traveled in Morocco, Ethiopia (resulting in book From Red Sea to Blue Nile (1925), Afghanistan (1936); in 1939-40 the McGraths built Unicorn Cay on Eleuthera, Bahamas, which became their permanent home; she died at Warwick, Bermuda, on 30 June 1967)
- The secret of the Sahara, c1921:t.p. (Rosita Forbes)
- LCN; Cf. IBN: Forbes, Joan Rosita, 1893 (1890?)-1967; NUC pre56: Forbes, Rosita (Torr)
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Wikipedia description:
Rosita Forbes, née Joan Rosita Torr, (16 January 1890 – 30 June 1967) was an English travel writer, novelist and explorer. In 1920–1921 she was the first European woman to visit the Kufra Oasis in Libya (together with the Egyptian explorer Ahmed Hassanein), in a period when this was closed to Westerners.
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