KR
was brought up in her father's Wesleyan Methodist
faith, and also introduced to her maternal family's Presbyterianism
by her Scottish relatives. She wrote of being drawn more strongly to the Greek myths in her...
Cultural formation
Mary Renault
MR
was confirmed as an Anglican
, and enjoyed church ceremonies, but it was Plato
's belief in the individual which provided her with a lifelong ethical code. Later in life she discovered the works...
In later life NM
related her private world of terror and magical incantation to folk and psychological archetypes, and felt that Jung
's theory of collective archetypes accurately represented her childhood imaginings. According to her...
Family and Intimate relationships
Ruth Pitter
Years later RP
spoke satirically of her first experience of falling in love. He had yellow curls reaching almost to his shoulders, and lovely blue eyes. He would do. He would have to do. When...
Fictionalization
Lady Eleanor Butler
Penruddock
's version of their story sets their elopement in the middle of a ball, and gives them two exciting years in London; Colette and de Beauvoir take a triumphalist view of their assumed lesbianism...
Friends, Associates
P. L. Travers
In Paris, in about 1930, she is thought to have met and dined at the table of
Haggarty, Ben. “Refining Nectar”. A Lively Oracle: A Centennial Celebration of P.L. Travers, Creator of Mary Poppins, edited by Ellen Dooling Draper and Jenny Koralek, Published for the Paul Brunton Philosophic Foundation by Larson Publications, 1999, pp. 19-24.
She begins arrestingly: We live in a period in which it is not possible to talk meaningfully about God.
Furlong, Monica. The End of Our Exploring. Hodder and Stoughton, 1973.
13
She then posits an absolute human need for meaning and for myth (the core...
Literary responses
Penelope Shuttle
Gay Clifford
, reviewing for the Times Literary Supplement, offered some readings common in reviews of the work of PS
and Peter Redgrove
, about a prose poem of Jung
ian archetypes, and...
Literary responses
May Sinclair
MS
herself judged this novel probably in some ways the only decent thing I've ever done or shall do.
Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press, 2000.
213
Because writing it was delving into her own past consciousness, she found the effort exhausting...
Literary responses
Leonora Carrington
In her 2017 assessment Marina Warner
likens the text, as a testament to the horrors of psychosis and convulsive drug therapy that is split between visionary illumination and profound psychological distress, to such writing as...
Boll, Theophilus E. M. Miss May Sinclair: Novelist: A Biographical and Critical Introduction. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1973.
105
Zegger, Hrisey Dimitrakis. May Sinclair. Twayne, 1976.
22
Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Publishing
May Sinclair
MS
published the first of a two-part review of Jung
's Psychology of the Unconscious (1912) in the Medical Press, as Clinical Lectures on Symbolism and Sublimation.
Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press, 2000.
277
Textual Features
Adrienne Rich
From 1972 to 1976, the period just before this text was published, AR
read extensively through the fields of psychology, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis: authors studied include Freud
, Jung
, Melanie Klein
, Karen Horney
Timeline
26 July 1875
Carl Jung
, founder of analytical psychology, was born in Kesswil, Switzerland.
1882
The Society for Psychical Research
was founded with the purpose of conducting objective scientific research into supernatural phenomena such as clairvoyance, telepathy, and mediumship.
1895-1901
Carl Jung
studied medicine at Basel, Switzerland.
1928
Carl Jung
published Contributions to Analytical Psychology.