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HELEN DAVENPORT GIBBONS

1882 – 1960

An American journalist, author.

In 1909 the Gibbons family witnessed the Armenian massacres in Tarsus, Turkey. Later (in 1917) Helen Gibbons wrote a book called “The Red Rugs of Tarsus”—a compilation of her letters describing those events...

Biography

Nonfiction

THE RED RUGS OF TARSUS
A Woman’s Record of the Armenian Massacre of 1909

New York: The Century Co., 1917
Published, April, 1917

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