The Three Sisters (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: May Sinclair
- First Published: 1914
- Type of Work: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: The end of the Victorian era, in the early 1900’s
- Setting: Garth, a remote village on the northern moors of England
- Principal Characters: James Cartaret, Mary Cartaret, Gwenda Cartaret, Alice Cartaret, Dr. Steven Rowcliffe, Jim Greatorex
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Culture, Family or family life, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Twentieth century, Marriage, Villages, England or English people, Women’s issues, Sisters, Idealism, Loneliness, Clergy
- Locales: England
The Novel
The novel’s situation (a clergyman’s three lonely daughters living on the English moors) and its theme (the evils caused by sexual repression and self-abnegation) were suggested by the lives of the three Bronte sisters—Anne, Charlotte, and Emily—whose novels May Sinclair admired. The action covers a ten-year period in the little village of Garth and its environs, in which the only major events are the natural ones: birth, marriage, disease, and death. The story of a thwarted love affair is absorbing in itself, but the real focus is the psychoanalysis of the...
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