At the same time, Stark's feelings about her personal life shifted, at least temporarily. Her mother
had often pressured her to marry: as she now wrote to Venetia Buddicom
: I used to feel that...
Family and Intimate relationships
Freya Stark
FS
's mother Flora Stark
was known as an indomitable personality, and had a profound effect on the development of her daughter's identity. She was the daughter of Madeleine
and William Stark
, and lived...
Friends, Associates
Freya Stark
In mid-1923, Viva Jeyes
introduced Freya and Flora Stark
to the Buddicom family, who owned property near La Mortola. Freya then began a close friendship with Venetia Buddicom
, travelled with her soon after this...
politics
Freya Stark
FS
learned that because of her anti-Fascist activities in Yemen, the Italian government had arrested her mother, Flora Stark
, then seventy-nine, along with her godfather, eighty-nine year old Herbert Young
.
Geniesse, Jane Fletcher. Passionate Nomad. Random House, 1999.
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Textual Production
Freya Stark
The volume of letters, written in 1928 to the author's mother Flora Stark
, was edited and introduced by FS
's friend Sir Sydney Cockerell
.
Geniesse, Jane Fletcher. Passionate Nomad. Random House, 1999.
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Textual Production
Freya Stark
Flora Stark
's World War II prison memoir, An Italian Diary, was issued posthumously with a foreword by her daughter FS
, through John Murray
, Freya's longtime publisher.
Geniesse, Jane Fletcher. Passionate Nomad. Random House, 1999.