Liking the sound of it, she adopted the name and eventually changed her surname legally following her second divorce. When socializing with her mother's friends, Tudor was usually introduced as 'Rosamund Tudor's daughter, Tasha', leading others to believe that her last name was Tudor. In her teen years she hoped to own a dairy cow so earned pocket money, eventually saving enough to purchase her cow, Delilah. Tasha had developed a strong desire to live an agrarian lifestyle in the New England countryside, and she worked to advance her dream, even as a young person.

Tasha later referred to this unconventional atmosphere as “the best thing that ever happened to me.” The children spent much of their time performing scenes from Shakespeare and in plays written by 'Aunt Gwen,' the household matriarch. This new household was far more creative and less structured, and, as a result, Tasha and the other children were largely left to their own devices.

As a result of their split, Tasha went to live with friends of the family in Redding, Connecticut. Tasha’s parents divorced when she was nine, following her mother's rejection of the strict society in Boston in favor of a more bohemian existence as a painter in Greenwich Village. She spent her early years in Marblehead, Massachusetts, before her father's work relocated the family to North Chevy Chase in Maryland to help with the Wartime effort. At birth, she was named 'Starling' after her father, but he was an admirer of the War and Peace character Natasha, and his daughter was soon re-christened Natasha, which was later shortened to Tasha. Starling Burgess and noted portrait painter Rosamund Tudor. Tasha Tudor was born in Boston, Massachusetts as Starling Burgess, the daughter of naval architect W. Tasha Tudor (Aug– June 18, 2008) was an American illustrator and writer of children's books. Tasha Tudor shaving splints from a log on her Vermont farm in 1977

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