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.
Boots
the chemist, which operated circulating libraries in its shops, refused to the stock this novel (as it already refused VH
's Sooner or Later) because of its alleged sensationalism.
Belford, Barbara. Violet. Simon and Schuster.
146-7
Secor, Marie. “Violet Hunt, Novelist: A Reintroduction”. English Literature in Transition, Vol.
Since the early criticism which took its lead from Charlotte's biographical portrait, a biographical and hagiographic industry has arisen around all three Brontë sisters and their home in Haworth. A. Mary F. Robinson
published...
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...
This novel is both social history and satire, covering territory similar to that of Virginia Woolf
's The Years and May Sinclair
's The Tree of Heaven. Like these, it traces the lives of...
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...
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
Friends, Associates
Marie Belloc Lowndes
Her literary friends of a generation before her own included George Meredith
, Rhoda Broughton
, and Henry James
. She participated in the friendship of the two last-named by being regularly at Broughton's house...
CADS
and May Sinclair
began a close, lifelong friendship.
Watts, Marjorie, and Frances King. Mrs. Sappho. Duckworth.
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Friends, Associates
H. D.
After her move to England, Ezra Pound
introduced HD to his circle of friends, many of whom were important figures in the modernist movement. They included W. B. Yeats
, T. S. Eliot
,...
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.
268ff
Several decades later she...
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.