1. Enid Mary Starkie CBE, was an Irish literary critic, known for her biographical works on French poets.
12 Facts About Enid Starkie
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Enid Starkie was a Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford, and Lecturer and then Reader in the University.
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Enid Starkie's father hired a French governess, Leonie Cora, to tutor his children in French and music.
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Cora had been a pupil of the French pianist and composer Raoul Pugno, and Enid Starkie learnt to play the piano, going on to win second medal for two years in succession at Feis Ceoil, the annual music festival in Dublin.
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Enid Starkie was educated at Alexandra College in Dublin, Somerville College at the University of Oxford, and the Sorbonne in Paris.
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Enid Starkie read Modern Languages at Oxford and obtained a First in 1920.
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Enid Starkie taught modern languages at Exeter and then in the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford.
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Enid Starkie wrote perceptively on Andre Gide, securing him an honorary doctorate at Oxford in 1947.
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Enid Starkie played a major part in establishing the poetic reputation of Arthur Rimbaud, receiving the first doctorate to be given in the Faculty of Modern Languages for her work Rimbaud in Abyssinia.
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Enid Starkie published two major volumes on Flaubert.
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Enid Starkie was honoured as an officer of the Legion d'honneur in 1958, and as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1967.
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My wife is the novelist, Shirley Hazzard, and I always wonder when Enid Starkie will appear in one of her books.