Freya Stark Collection

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Freya Stark Collection

1893-1993

https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/pdf/00607.pdf

The Freya Stark collection spans the years 1893 to 1985 and embraces in the main her correspondence, along with publication files of thirteen major works and drafts of a considerable number of minor pieces. Also present are some clippings, photographs, and invitations, together with third party correspondence.

30 document boxes, 1 oversize folder (osf), 2 galley files (gf) (12.6 linear feet)

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Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center

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SNAC Resource ID: 11677166

Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center

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Stark, Freya, 1893-1993

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Freya Madeline Stark was born in Paris on 31 January 1893 to Robert and Flora Stark. The elder Starks--the father of British birth, the mother born on the continent--were cousins and artists. After several years of living at Chagford, Devon and in northern Italy, Robert and Flora Stark separated, and Flora, with Freya and a younger sister Vera, remained in Italy, first at Dronero, and then at Asolo, near Venice. Freya's fascination with exotic lands is said to have dated from her earliest readi...