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May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian

May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian


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May Sinclair's 1904 novel, The Divine Fire, made her a household name in both Britain and the US. From then on she was a prominent figure in many of the literary and cultural movements of her day. A committed if ambivalent feminist, she published in the suffragist journal Votes for Women, and was one of the first women in England to go out to the Belgian front in 1914. Towards the end of her active life, she wrote the celebrated modernist novel, Mary Olivier: A Life (1919), and the dense, macabre Life and Death of Harriett Frean (1922). May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian, the first book to appear on May Sinclair in nearly thirty years, draws on newly discovered manuscripts to tell the story of this woman whose emotional isolation bears witness to the great price Victorian women had to pay for their intellectual freedom.

Table of Contents:
1863-1897 1: Learning Philosophy 2: A Crisis of Love and Faith 1898-1908 3: Fame and the Literary Marketplace 4: Celibacy and Psychoanalysis 1908-1918 5: War 6: Experiments in Poetry 1919-1946 7: Sublimation and Mary Olivier: A Life 8: The Twilight Years and Life and Death of Harriet Frean

Review :
`This is now the essential book on May Sinclair.' M.S. Vogeler, CHOICE Nov. 2000, Vol.38, No. 3. `Suzanne Raitt rises to the challenge of bringing Sinclair out of obscurity, a task made more difficult by the paucity of material.' Mary Tomlinson, The Times HE Supplement, 8th Sept. 2000. `Her respect for her subject, her interpretive strengths, her subtle appreciation of Sinclair's novels and her sense of historical moment combine to being Sinclair alive.' Mary Tomlinson, The Times HE Supplement, 8th Sept. 00. `Raitt always assesses Sinclair with a level gaze ... she has produced a cool-headed study of Sinclair.' Joanna Griffiths, Review of Books, 21st Sept. 00. `Raitt fills the early stages of her account with a wealth of rewarding biographical detail.' Joanna Griffiths, London Review of Books, 21st Sept. 00. `a serene, elegant biography.' Joanna Griffiths, London Review of Books, 21st Sept. 00. `Raitt ... paints an attractive and engrossing picture ... this is probably the definitive word on May Sinclair.' Robert Nye, The Tablet, 23rd Sept. 00.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780198122982
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press
  • Height: 242 mm
  • No of Pages: 324
  • Spine Width: 23 mm
  • Width: 162 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0198122985
  • Publisher Date: 16 Mar 2000
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 720 gr


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