According to MS
's later very private admission, she was in love with Anthony Deane
. He became engaged in December 1896 to somebody else whom he duly married; but he remembered their friendship with...
Friends, Associates
May Sinclair
In the same period she made two important philosophical friendships: with Anthony Deane
, then a curate, and Henry Melvill Gwatkin
, Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Cambridge
. Both wanted to bring her back...
Literary responses
May Sinclair
MS
's friend Anthony Deane
told her these works were very unusual, but very good indeed at their best.
qtd. in
Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press, 2000.
58
Literary responses
May Sinclair
Her friend Anthony Deane
, whose letter MS
kept (with Gissing's), wrote that he thought the novel wonderfully written but that the heroine was the most detestable young lady I have ever met between the...
Literary responses
May Sinclair
While other friends had reservations, Anthony Deane
told MS
that this was the very best book he had read for a long time.
qtd. in
Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press, 2000.
95
It received far better reviews in the USA than at home...
