Dec 20, 2009
May Amelia St. Clair Sinclair was an unusual British author in that her work found a wider, more enthusiastic audience in the United States than it did in her native England. Born in Cheshire in 1863, she was educated at home and at Ladies’ College, Cheltenham. As a girl she wrote poetry and philosophical criticism, some of which was published. Her first published short story appeared in 1895, and her first novel, Audrey Craven, in 1897. Real fame as a novelist waited for almost a decade, until the publication of The Divine Fire in 1904. A biography, The Three...
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