The Three Sisters (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: May Sinclair
- First Published: 1914
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: The early 1900’s
- Setting: Garth, a remote village on the northern moors of England
- 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
Characters Discussed
Gwendolyn Cartaret, the defiant and perceptive second daughter of James Cartaret, twenty-five years old when the novel opens. Keenly sensitive to nature, she assumes responsibility for visiting outlying parishioners in the lonely Yorkshire moors and thrives on strenuous hikes in the evenings. Slender, with translucent skin and expressive hands, she is a nervous beauty whose inner strength impresses other characters forcibly. She sees through her father’s hypocrisy and maintains an intellectual’s reverence for truth yet is susceptible to pointless...
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