Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Suzanne Raitt
Standard Name: Raitt, Suzanne
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Ethel Smyth | In addition to her relationship with Henry Brewster
, ES
's life was punctuated by a series of intense emotional attachments to women. In a letter to Brewster, she wondered why it is so much... |
Education | May Sinclair | Her biographer Suzanne Raitt
calls this a second education, more valuable than that on offer in the new women's colleges. MS
wrote, before you knew where you were, he had begun his work on your... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Charlotte Mew | There has been much speculation, both at the time and more recently, about the nature of the relationship between the two writers. CM
seems to have fallen in love, but Sinclair was not receptive, not... |
Literary responses | Frances Bellerby | FB
's award of a Civil List pension (1973) was a recognition of her literary achievement. Charles Causley
's obituary called her a true original possessed of a unique and distinguished voice. |
Literary responses | May Sinclair | Suzanne Raitt
finds in this book a glorification of the spiritual uplift of war. Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press, 2000. 167 |
Literary responses | May Sinclair | Suzanne Raitt
calls the Aldington piece MS
's most substantial statement of the paradox of modernity. Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press, 2000. 183 |
Reception | May Sinclair | Bertrand Russell
(after writing to MS
to let her know he was doing so) reviewed it for the Nation with what biographer Suzanne Raitt
calls acclaim. Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press, 2000. 42n1 |
Reception | May Sinclair | Reviewers were less positive than about MS
's previous book: most of them found something or other to cavil at in the moral positions taken. But when Eleanor Cecil
gave it a bad review, Evelyn Underhill |
Textual Features | May Sinclair | Of Sinclair's biographers and critics, Theophilus Boll
considers the novel an allegory of MS
's conversion from poet to novelist, while Suzanne Raitt
calls it a critique of the book trade in which she was... |
Textual Features | May Sinclair | According to biographer Suzanne Raitt
, MS
sometimes used aspects of her own experience in her stories. The Pin-Prick, 1915, about a young woman so sensitive that she kills herself in response to a... |
Textual Features | May Sinclair | Like May Cannan
(different though Cannan's idiom is), MS
continued to express her regret over her exclusion from the via dolorosa of the war: like an unloved hand laid on a beating heart / Our... |
Textual Features | May Sinclair | MS
argues that in eschewing the traditional elements of beginning, middle, and end, Richardson produces a work which is far from formless, but which catches the patterns and structures of the mind. Suzanne Raitt
writes... |
Textual Features | May Sinclair | This psychoanalytical novel returns to the themes of renunciation and submission to a mother's will seen in Mary Olivier. Unlike Mary, however, Harriett never moves beyond her need for her mother's approval, and devotes... |
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