Enid Mary Starkie
(1897-1970), Critic and university teacherSitter in 2 portraits
The author of works on Baudelaire (1933), Rimbaud (1938), Flaubert (1967, 1971) and her friend, André Gide, Starkie was an authority on French literature, a renowned tutor at Oxford and famed too for her unconventional clothes.
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Alan King
29 March 2021, 21:06
Just following up a link between Enid Starkie and the French writer Andre Gide, whom she met when Gide was in Oxford to be awarded an honorary D.Litt. c.1947. My source is Hommage a Andre Gide 1869-1951 published by La Nouvelle Revue Francaise in Paris in 1951. Some 58 people contributed to this volume. Enid Starkie's contribution, which is in French, is simply headed 'A Oxford'.