Freya stark biography

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Freya Stark facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Dame Freya Stark
Portrait by Herbert Arnould Olivier (), National Portrait Gallery, London
Born	()31 January Paris, France
Died	9 May () (aged ) Asolo, Italy
Nationality	British, Italian
Occupation	Explorer, travel writer

Dame Freya Madeline StarkDBE (31 January – 9 May ), was an Anglo-Italian explorer and travel writer. She wrote more than two dozen books on her travels in the Middle East and Afghanistan as well as several autobiographical works and essays. She was one of the first non-Arabs to travel through the southern Arabian Desert.

Early life and studies

Stark was born on 31 January in Paris, where her parents were studying art. Her mother, Flora, was of English, French, German, and Polish descent; her father, Robert, an English painter from Devon. Stark spent much of her childhood in northern Italy, helped by the fact that Pen Browning, a friend of her father, had bought three houses in Asolo. Her maternal grandmother lived in Genoa.

Her parents' marriage was unhappy from the outset, and they separated early in Stark's childhood. Stark's biographer, Jane Fletcher Geniesse—quoting Stark's cousin, Nora Stanton Barney—claimed that Stark's biological father was Obediah Dyer, "a well-

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Freya Stark

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Freya Madeline Stark lived for a century, and into that one hundred years she packed a life of extraordinary daring and ingenuity. "Personally I would rather feel wrong with everybody else than right all by myself," she wrote in Baghdad Sketches ( enlarged edition, 7); "I like people different, and agree with the man who said that the worst of the human race is the number of duplicates." Such a motto defines not only her approach to the world but also the character of the woman herself. She had no duplicate. The writings that resulted from her constant travels began as wonder-filled accounts of ancient storybook kingdoms of the Middle East and moved impressively toward a reflective consideration of the differences between a nomadic way of life and the stable urbanity that might have been her lot if she had decided to fit the mold of those around her. In these accounts of her own transformation she brought a growing body of readers not only into exotic locales but also to the brink of metaphysical questions about the meaning of life.

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Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. , British Travel Writers –39

Recommended Citation

Hawley, J. C. (). Freya Stark. In B. Brothers (Ed.), Dictionary of Literary Biograp