Freya Stark

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Standard Name: Stark, Freya
Birth Name: Freya Madeline Stark
Pseudonym: Tharaya
Styled: Mrs Freya Stark
Married Name: Freya Madeline Perowne
Titled: Dame Freya Stark
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 Jane Fletcher Geniesse (1999), and other critical works, have contributed to the lasting interest in her career.
Photograph of a head-and-shoulders painting of Freya Stark by Herbert Arnould Olivier, 1923. She sits in front of a wooden cabinet, with many drawers and an inset mirror, her arm resting on its shelf. She is wearing a simple black tunic over a sheer white blouse, and she has jaw-length brown hair tied with a black ribbon. National Portrait Gallery.

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Stark, Freya. Traveller’s Prelude. J. Murray, 1950.