Freya Stark
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Dame Freya Madeline Stark was a British-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 wo
Portrait by Herbert Arnould Olivier (1923), National Portrait Gallery, London
Robert Barrett Browning
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Robert Wiedeman Barrett Browning, known as Pen Browning, was an English painter. His career was moderately successful, but he is better known as the son and heir of the celebrated English poets Robert
Freya Stark
…and Polish descent. Her father, Robert, was 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, and they separated…
1906 bust of Robert Browning by Pen Browning
Robert Browning 1865