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May Sinclair

Born

in Rock Ferry, Cheshire, The United Kingdom

August 24, 1863

Died

November 14, 1946

Genre

Fiction, Poetry

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May Sinclair was the pseudonym of Mary Amelia St. Clair, a popular British writer who wrote about two dozen novels, short stories and poetry. She was an active suffragist, and member of the Woman Writers' Suffrage League. May Sinclair was also a significant critic, in the area of modernist poetry and prose and she is attributed with first using the term stream of consciousness) in a literary context, when reviewing the first volumes of Dorothy Richardson's novel sequence Pilgrimage (1915–67), in The Egoist, April 1918. ...more

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Average rating: 3.78 · 7,491 ratings · 877 reviews · 214 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Life and Death of Harriett Frean 3.59 avg rating — 1,189 ratings — published 1922 — 161 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Uncanny Stories 3.65 avg rating — 317 ratings — published 1923 — 49 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Three Sisters 3.73 avg rating — 264 ratings — published 1914 — 83 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mary Olivier: A Life 4.04 avg rating — 189 ratings — published 1919 — 102 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Tree of Heaven 3.69 avg rating — 143 ratings — published 1907 — 116 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched 3.57 avg rating — 135 ratings — published 1922 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Flaw in the Crystal 3.12 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 1912 — 49 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Flaw in the Crystal: And Other Uncanny Stories by May Sinclair by May Sinclair, Mike Ashley (Editor) 3.41 avg rating — 29 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Romantic 3.73 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1920 — 160 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Divine Fire 3.65 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1904 — 102 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“She found that by a system of punctual movements she could give to her existence the reasonable appearance of an aim.”
― May Sinclair, The Life and Death of Harriett Frean

tags: purpose

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“You can't conceive the perverse ingenuity he could put into hiding his affections.”
― May Sinclair, The Token

tags: character, emotions, humor, humour

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“Though he plunged into work as another man might have plunged into dissipation, to drown the thought of her, you could see that he had no longer any interest in it; he no longer loved it. He attacked it with a fury that had more hate in it than love.”
― May Sinclair, The Token

tags: anger, bereavement, death, despair, emotion, grief, hate, widower

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