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Cultural formation | Freya 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... |
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. 265 |
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. 368 OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
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. 315 |
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