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
MS , 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.
Oval black and white, head-and-shoulders photograph of May Sinclair in semi-profile, c. 1912. She is wearing a white, embroidered dress or blouse with a high collar; her dark hair is pulled up in a loose roll with a bun on top.
Black-and-white photo of May Sinclair. She is looking down, and pictured in profile.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Virginia Woolf
They developed a relationship that was competitive yet sustaining and essential to both. In August 1920 Woolf commented on Mansfield in her diary: a woman caring as I care for writing is rare enough I...
Textual Features Rebecca West
Between March 1915 and August 1917, West wrote reviews for the Daily News, under the editorship of A. G. Gardiner . She often reviewed books on the subject of women; these allowed her to...
Friends, Associates Mary Webb
In London, despite the shyness that made literary life difficult for her, MW became friends with May Sinclair , Robert and Sylvia Lynd , Rebecca West , novelist and critic Edwin Pugh , and Lady Cynthia Asquith
Wealth and Poverty Harriet Shaw Weaver
During 1914, the printing of the journal cost HSW £337, while subscription had brought in only £37. She routinely sank £300 a year in the journal. Gradually she was forced to cut printing orders, switch...
Friends, Associates Evelyn Underhill
EU 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...
Intertextuality and Influence Evelyn Underhill
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...
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.
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Among other literary figures...
Textual Features Katharine Tynan
They show increasing awareness of time and time's passing: in this volume KT expresses regret for having missed, by her absence in England, the last moments of some of her Irish friends' lives. Nearly all...
Friends, Associates G. B. Stern
GBS moved in literary and artistic circles in London before the first World War. She visited Rebecca West at Leigh-on-Sea in Essex in September 1917 during a week of air-raids.
Stern, G. B. Monogram. Chapman and Hall.
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Several decades later she...
Occupation Constance Smedley
In her capacity as European representative for the American Everybody's Magazine (edited by John O'Hara Cosgrave ), CS set out to woo various authors including Kenneth Grahame . She writes that she was successful in...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Constance Smedley
Life, she wrote here, is a perpetual crusade.
Smedley, Constance, and Maxwell Armfield. Crusaders. Chatto & Windus.
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She had had an irresistible desire to crystallize every phase in the form of some sort of story for grown-ups or children, but the experiences had...
Friends, Associates Catharine Amy Dawson Scott
CADS and May Sinclair began a close, lifelong friendship.
Watts, Marjorie, and Frances King. Mrs. Sappho. Duckworth.
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Textual Production Catharine Amy Dawson Scott
May Sinclair provided an introduction; those who communicated with CADS were H. F. N. Scott , Cornish writer Henry Dawson Lowry , preacher and politician George Dawson , and journalist W. T. Stead .
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Friends, Associates Gladys Henrietta Schütze
On her first attendance at PEN , taken there by an American friend, Sarah MacConnell , she met Catharine Amy Dawson Scott (whom she took to at once), Galsworthy (whose work she much admired), Roma Wilson
Textual Production Dorothy L. Sayers
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...

Timeline

9 November 1857: The first issue appeared of the US magazine...

Writing climate item

9 November 1857

The first issue appeared of the US magazineAtlantic Monthly. It set out to provide articles of an abstract and permanent value, while not ignoring the healthy appetite of the mind for entertainment in...

June 1908: The Women Writers' Suffrage League was established...

National or international item

June 1908

The Women Writers' Suffrage League was established by Cicely Hamilton and Bessie Hatton .

Early December 1908: A meeting of suffragists at the Albert Hall...

Building item

Early December 1908

A meeting of suffragists at the Albert Hall was marred by violence from both sides: a woman struck a steward in the face with a whip, and women were roughly handled.

Texts

Sinclair, May. “<span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Prufrock, and Other Observations</span>: A Criticism”. The Little Review.
Sinclair, May. “A Custance of Today”. Cheltenham Ladies College Magazine, Cheltenham Ladies’ College.
Sinclair, May. A Defence of Idealism. Macmillan, 1917.
Sinclair, May. “A Defence of Men”. The English Review.
Sinclair, May. A Journal of Impressions in Belgium. Hutchinson, 1915.
Sinclair, May. Anne Severn and the Fieldings. Hutchinson, 1922.
Sinclair, May. Arnold Waterlow: A Life. Hutchinson, 1924.
Sinclair, May. Audrey Craven. W. Blackwood, 1897.
Sinclair, May. “Clinical Lectures on Symbolism and Sublimation”. Medical Press, pp. 118-22.
Sinclair, May. Essays in Verse. Kegan Paul, Trench, 1891.
Sinclair, May. Feminism. Women Writers’ Suffrage League, 1912.
Sinclair, May. “Field Ambulance in Retreat: Via Dolorosa, Via Sacra”. King Albert’s Book, edited by Thomas Caine, Daily Telegraph, 1914, p. 141.
Scott, Catharine Amy Dawson, and May Sinclair. From Four Who Are Dead. Arrowsmith, 1926.
Sinclair, May. History of Anthony Waring. Hutchinson, 1927.
Sinclair, May, and Emily Brontë. “Introduction”. Wuthering Heights, Dent; Dutton, 1907.
Sinclair, May. “Khaki”. The English Review, Vol.
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, pp. 190-01.
Sinclair, May. Kitty Tailleur. Constable, 1908.
Sinclair, May. Life and Death of Harriett Frean. Collins, 1922.
Sinclair, May. Mary Olivier: A Life. Cassell, 1919.
Sinclair, May. Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson. W. Blackwood, 1897.
Sinclair, May. Nakiketas, and Other Poems. Kegan Paul, Trench, 1886.
Sohm, Rudolf. Outlines of Church History. Translator Sinclair, May, Macmillan, 1895.
Sinclair, May. “Red Tape”. The Queen, the Lady’s Newspaper and Court Chronicle, pp. 802-3.
Sinclair, May. Tales Told by Simpson. Hutchinson, 1930.
Sinclair, May. Tasker Jevons: The Real Story. Hutchinson, 1916.