Sinclair, May
Sinclair, May ( Mary Amelia St Clair Sinclair ) ( 1863 – 1946 ),novelist, the youngest daughter of a shipowner who went bankrupt; he died in 1881 , and May (who was educated at home, apart from one year at Cheltenham Ladies’ College) lived with her mother in London lodgings until her mother's death in 1901 . She never married, and supported herself by reviews, translations, etc., and by writing fiction. She was a supporter of women's suffrage , and deeply interested in psychoanalysis; her reviews and novels show considerable knowledge of both Jung and Freud . Among the most notable of her 24 novels are The Divine Fire ( 1904 ), The Three Sisters ( 1914 , a study in female frustration with echoes of the Brontë story), The Tree of Heaven ( 1917 ), Mary Olivier: A Life ( 1919 ), and Life and Death of Harriett Frean ( 1922 ). The last two are stream-of-consciousness novels,...
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