Enid Starkie
Starkie was primarily a biographer of Rimbaud and Baudelaire but her autobiography A Lady's Child is a vivid document of Anglo-Irish Protestant life. Her scholarly work shaped the reception of French literature in England.
Works
- A Lady's ChildMemoir recounting a childhood in Ireland with themes of loss and transformation
- BaudelaireCritical biography of the French Romantic poet and his complex artistic legacy
- Arthur RimbaudCritical biography of the rebellious French Symbolist poet Rimbaud
- Flaubert: The Making of the MasterCritical biography tracing Flaubert's artistic development and literary innovations
- From Gautier to EliotLiterary criticism examining French Symbolism and modernist poets through Eliot