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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
MS
, 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.
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|---|---|---|
| Occupation | Emmuska Baroness Orczy | During the First World War EBO
did her bit by giving informal lectures, first on the motives and issues of the Napoleonic Wars, then on English literature. She also sat on a committee of the... |
| Occupation | Constance Smedley | In her capacity as European representative for the American Everybody's Magazine (edited by John O'Hara Cosgrave
), CS
set out to woo various authors including Kenneth Grahame
. She writes that she was successful in... |
| politics | Radclyffe Hall | With the support of Violet Hunt
and May Sinclair
, RH
was elected a member of the writers' organisation PEN
. Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray, 1997. 173 |
| politics | Violet Hunt | |
| Author summary | Dorothy Richardson | DR
was in her time, and remains, a singular novelist. Her fiction has never conformed to accepted categories, and still challenges literary critics. Her major work, the series of novels comprising Pilgrimage, is now... |
| Publishing | Dora Marsden | Plans were afoot to relaunch The Freewoman shortly after it collapsed in its first form. When Marsden retreated to Southport for health reasons, Rebecca West
acted as liaison between her and supporters in the Freewoman Discussion Circle |
| Publishing | Cicely Hamilton | CH
published a controversial article, Man, in The English Review; it provoked a response from May Sinclair
in the July issue of the journal. Whitelaw, Lis. The Life and Rebellious Times of Cicely Hamilton. Women’s Press, 1990. 121-2 |
| Publishing | Charlotte Mew | May Sinclair
helped to introduce CM
's work to Ezra Pound
, who received it enthusiastically and helped to get it published here. The Egoist unfortunately did not pay. Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press, 2000. 188 |
| Textual Features | Katharine Tynan | They show increasing awareness of time and time's passing: in this volume KT
expresses regret for having missed, by her absence in England, the last moments of some of her Irish friends' lives. Nearly all... |
| Textual Features | H. D. | This issue opened with an editorial by Dora Marsden
. It contained poetry by Aldington, HD, F. S. Flint
, D. H. Lawrence
, Marianne Moore
, and May Sinclair
and prose articles giving the... |
| Textual Features | Violet Hunt | Focusing particularly on plot and dialogue (she was praised especially for her skill with the latter), her novels consider sexual and social relationships from an anti-romantic, feminist perspective. Belford, Barbara. Violet. Simon and Schuster, 1990. 282 Johnson, George M., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 197. Gale Research, 1999. 197: 181 |
| Textual Features | Rebecca West | Between March 1915 and August 1917, West wrote reviews for the Daily News, under the editorship of A. G. Gardiner
. She often reviewed books on the subject of women; these allowed her to... |
| Textual Production | Rosamond Lehmann | At the time she began the novel, RL
admitted that she had very little knowledge of contemporary women's writing other than May Sinclair
's. She dedicated this work to Dadie Rylands
, who had advised... |
| Textual Production | Dora Marsden | Assistant editors were Richard Aldington
and Leonard Compton-Rickett
, and later H. D.
(when Aldington went to war in June 1916) and T. S. Eliot
(from July 1917). Contributors of creative work and critical reviews... |
| Textual Production | Catharine Amy Dawson Scott | May Sinclair
provided an introduction; those who communicated with CADS
were H. F. N. Scott
, Cornish writer Henry Dawson Lowry
, preacher and politician George Dawson
, and journalist W. T. Stead
. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
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