Flora Stark

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...

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...

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...

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 .

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.

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 .