Jane Fletcher Geniesse

FS was born two months prematurely in her parents' Paris studio.

Despite the slowness and pain of her recovery, FS revelled in the attention focused on her by her mother: at this time, the young girl began what biographer Jane Fletcher Geniesse calls almost a love...

Stark was also moved by what she saw as the futility of her sister's life. She later wrote: Vera's death is still as harsh as ever and will be as long as I can feel...

Within seven months of its initial publication, East is West had been reprinted twice. Calling the text a sensitive and engaging account of the important transactions taking place in Arab lands,Jane Fletcher Geniesse

Famous as a twentieth-century explorer and traveller, FS was also a prominent travel-writer, essayist, autobiographer, letter-writer, geographic historian, photo journalist, and cartographer. Reprints of Stark's texts, along with recent biographies by Molly Izzard (1993) and...

In Such Good Friends and Friends of a Lifetime, Sir Sydney Cockerell published a selection of letters from his (mostly famous) associates; according to critics, among the best were those written by G. B. Shaw

Geniesse comments that Stark probably used Bell's The Desert and the Sown, 1905, to plan her trip, though she later resented comparisons between herself and Bell. Because the region had been under French martial...