Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
May Sinclair
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Standard Name: Sinclair, May
Birth Name: Mary Amelia St Clair Sinclair
Self-constructed Name: May Sinclair
Styled: May Sinclair
Pseudonym: Julian Sinclair
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, a major figure in the development of Modernism, wrote more than two dozen works ranging from novels (twenty-one of them), poetry, and collections of short stories to polemical pamphlets, philosophical treatises, translations, biography and a personal account of war experience. She was also a well-regarded book reviewer and literary critic. During her last decades she published nothing, and almost dropped from literary consciousness.
Since the early criticism which took its lead from Charlotte's biographical portrait, a biographical and hagiographic industry has arisen around all three Brontë sisters and their home in Haworth. A. Mary F. Robinson
published...
Literary responses
Dorothy Richardson
In a review of DR
's first three novels, published in the Little Review and The Egoist in April 1918, May Sinclair
used the label stream of consciousness to describe Richardson's technique. Sinclair borrowed the...
Literary responses
Charlotte Mew
May Sinclair
thought Madeleine magnificent, having depths & depths of passion & of sheer beauty.
Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press.
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She also enjoyed the high Victorian melodrama of Mew's reading aloud.
Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press.
The Dial made much of The Grey World's similarity to May Sinclair
's The Divine Fire (published the same year), in that both concern certain special people endowed with an ability to see a...
Intertextuality and Influence
Dorothy Richardson
DR
's effect on other writers has been estimated as very strong. Those she influenced include May Sinclair
(whose novel Mary Olivier was also serialised in the Little Review), Romer Wilson
, and C. A. Dawson-Scott
Intertextuality and Influence
Rose Macaulay
This novel is both social history and satire, covering territory similar to that of Virginia Woolf
's The Years and May Sinclair
's The Tree of Heaven. Like these, it traces the lives of...
Friends, Associates
Katharine Tynan
Living in a suburb of London, KT
frequented the heart of English literary culture. She had already joined London's Irish Literary Society
, and was later appointed its Honorary Vice-President.
Tynan, Katharine. The Years of the Shadow. Constable.
Grant, Joy. Stella Benson: A Biography. Macmillan.
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Friends, Associates
Evelyn Underhill
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and her husband led active social lives, often entertaining friends and colleagues at their home. Blanche Alethea Crackanthorpe
introduced her to Marie Belloc Lowndes
, who became a friend of Underhill and called her...
Friends, Associates
Phyllis Bottome
PB
was introduced to Ezra Pound
(as half American) by May Sinclair
at one of her parties in London.
Bottome, Phyllis. The Challenge. Harcourt, Brace and Company.