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Also Known As Dame Freya Madeline Stark
Born January 31, 1893 • Paris • France
Died May 9, 1993 (aged 100) • Asolo • Italy
Notable Works “The Valleys of the Assassins”
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Dame Rose Macaulay
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Daphne du Maurier, c. 1930.
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D.H. Lawrence
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Henry James
Henry James
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W.H. Auden
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Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
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Graham Greene
Graham Greene
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Helen Maria Williams
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Lawrence Durrell, 1968.
Lawrence Durrell
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Harriet Martineau, detail of an engraving
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Patrick Anderson
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Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, 6th Baronet
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Bruce Chatwin
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Douglas, Norman
Norman Douglas
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Aubrey Menen
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