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Enid Starkie
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: French fiction
Enid Starkie, in "A Lady's Child" (1941) p.5: '[following childhood deprived of maternal affection] ... when I began to read French stories, those to which I returned most frequently were those which described close family life and the deep instictive love of parents for their children.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Enid Starkie Print: Book
Francis Thompson : The Hound of Heaven
"Enid Starkie claimed that reading Francis Thompson's 'The Hound of Heaven' when she was ten made her feel as though she had been taken hold of and mastered, and determined that she should be a nun when she grew up."
