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.
CM
met novelist May Sinclair
, and for a brief period an ambivalent and intense
Raitt, Suzanne. “Charlotte Mew and May Sinclair: A love-song”. Critical Quarterly, Vol.
37
, No. 3, pp. 3-17.
4
friendship developed between them.
Fitzgerald, Penelope. Charlotte Mew and Her Friends. Collins, p. 240 pp.
117-20
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.
191
She also enjoyed the high Victorian melodrama of Mew's reading aloud.
Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press.
192
Despite her efforts to bring The Farmer's...
Publishing
Charlotte Mew
May Sinclair
helped to introduce CM
's work to Ezra Pound
, who received it enthusiastically and helped to get it published here. The Egoist unfortunately did not pay.
Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press.
This is one of the several pieces in which Orwell champions the middlebrow or non-art writing. His supreme example
Orwell, George. The Penguin Essays of George Orwell. Penguin in association with Secker and Warburg.
326
of the kind of book that has no literary pretensions but which remains readable when...
Textual Production
Eleanor Rathbone
She issued this as a response to an especially offensive letter on the women's movement by epidemiologist Sir Almroth Wright
, published in the Times about the upcoming Conciliation Bill, scheduled for this date.
DR
was in her time, and remains, a singular novelist. Her fiction has never conformed to accepted categories, and still challenges literary critics. Her major work, the series of novels comprising Pilgrimage, is now...
Richardson, Dorothy. Windows on Modernism: Selected Letters of Dorothy Richardson. Editor Fromm, Gloria G., University of Georgia Press.
39, 107, 138, 141, 170, 284
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...
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
Between 1928 and 1934, DLS
edited three volumes under the series title Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror. Her introductions to these collections offered a scholarly history of the genre of detective...
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