Record Number: 33607

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

The people in the beds near me also kept quiet during the days before the operation, when I lay busily reading about South Arabia, and this delicacy I have always remembered with gratitude.

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 18 Dec 1933 and 28 Feb 1934

Country:

England

Time

daytime

Place:

city: London
county: London
specific address: Dollis Hill Hospital
location in dwelling: ward

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Freya Stark

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

31 Jan 1893

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Travel writer

Religion:

Christian

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

[Anon] [Anon]

Title:

[book on South Arabia]

Genre:

History, Geography / Travel

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

33607

Source:

Print

Author:

Freya Stark

Editor:

n/a

Title:

The Coast of Incense: Autobiography 1933-1939

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1953

Vol:

n/a

Page:

17

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Freya Stark, The Coast of Incense: Autobiography 1933-1939, (London, 1953), p. 17, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33607, accessed: 15 May 2025

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Additional Comments:

Dame Freya Madeline Stark (31 January 1893 - 9 May 1993) was a British traveller and explorer. Stark was a patient in Dollis Hill Hospital between 18 December 1933 and 28 February 1934, when she had corrective cosmetic surgery to injuries to her face and scalp sustained in childhood.