 Her books, published by John Murray, served as a template for later guides.Her work earned her celebrity status in her lifetime.The French author Stendhal in La Chartreuse de Parme refers to a travelling British historian who 
"never paid for the smallest trifle without first looking up its price in the Travels of a certain Mrs Starke, a book which...indicates to the prudent Englishman the cost of a turkey, an apple, a glass of milk and so forth".