Her parents were Anna (born ) Cowan and Henry Starr.

[3] She won a gold medal at the Royal Academy for history painting in December 1867.

[5][2] She exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.

[6] Her painting Sintram and his mother was included in the 1905 book Women Painters of the World.

[7] Starr died in London in 25 May 1909[2] and was buried in the Starr family grave (plot no.19975) on the western side of Highgate Cemetery near the grave of Elizabeth Siddal.