MS
's father was William Sinclair
, a wealthy third-generation shipowner. Her biographer Theophilus Boll
notes: The only visible sign of family sentiment in the naming of the ships was the Saint Clair, the smallest...
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May Sinclair
Her articles and critical reviews were encouraging for many writers, including T. S. Eliot
.
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 Theophilus Boll
, MS
reported to a friend that Mary Olivier was substantially her life story, excepting only the love episodes; the brothers were true.
Boll, Theophilus E. M. Miss May Sinclair: Novelist: A Biographical and Critical Introduction. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1973.
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Boll, Theophilus E. M. Miss May Sinclair: Novelist: A Biographical and Critical Introduction. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1973.