Research Catalog

Title

May Sinclair : a modern Victorian / Suzanne Raitt.

Author

Raitt, Suzanne

Publication

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.

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Description

xvi, 307 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

"May Sinclair's 1904 novel, The Divine Fire, made her a household name in both Britain and the US. From then on she was a prominent figure in many of the literary and cultural movements of her day, mixing with writers such as Ezra Pound, H.D., Thomas Hardy, and Charlotte Mew. A committed if ambivalent feminist, Sinclair published in the suffragist journal Votes for Women, and was one of the first women in England to go out to the Belgian front in 1914. Towards the end of her active life, she wrote the celebrated modernist novel, Mary Olivier: A Life (1919), and the dense, macabre Life and Death of Harriett Frean (1922). May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian, the first book to appear on May Sinclair in nearly thirty years, draws on newly discovered manuscripts to tell the story of a woman whose life and work reflect the struggles of women of her generation for intellectual and social freedom."--Jacket.

Subject

• Sinclair, May
• Feminism and literature > England > History > 20th century
• Women and literature > England > History > 20th century
• Novelists, English > 20th century > Biography
• Feminists > Great Britain > Biography
• Modernism (Literature) > England

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-299) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1863-1897. 1. Learning Philosophy. 2. A Crisis of Love and Faith -- 1898-1908. 3. Fame and the Literary Market Place. 4. Celibacy and Psychoanalysis -- 1908-1918. 5. War. 6. Experiments in Poetry -- 1919-1946. 7. Sublimation and Mary Olivier: A Life. 8. The Twilight Years and Life and Death of Harriett Frean -- App. Autobiographical Sketch by May Sinclair, The Miss-May-Sinclair (1907-8).

ISBN

0198122985 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^^99055119^

OCLC

• 42719565
• SCSB-11002436

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library