|
Christine Crow was born in Kent in 1940. She read Modern Languages at Girton College, Cambridge, and after studying in Paris as part of a Ph.D on the work of Paul Valéry, moved to Scotland in 1965 to lecture on French Literature at the University of St Andrews. Her first novel Miss X, or the Wolf Woman was published by the Women's Press in 1990 ('Alternative Booker Prize', BBC2, 1991). She now lives with her mathematician husband in Anstruther, Fife, where in addition to painting the Bass Rock from her wave-lashed studio (exhibitions in Edinburgh, St Andrews and Pittenweem Arts Festival), she is completing an inevitably reflexive novel, The Fetch, centred on the different worlds of painting and writing, by way of Mallarmé and Plato's Cave, together with a cycle of 'Orphic' poems relating to her mother's recent death. She has contributed to a variety of publications such as French Studies, Lines Review (ed.Tessa Ransford), Taking Reality by Surprise (ed. Susan Sellers, 1991), Tea and Leg-Irons, New Feminist Readings from Scotland (ed. Caroline Gonda, 1992) and, more recently, the Scottish literary journal Fras (ed. John Herdman and Walter Perrie). Two of her previous critical works, Paul Valéry, Consciousness and Nature (CUP, 1972) and Paul Valéry and the Poetry of Voice (CUP, 1982) have recently been reissued in paperback form.
|
