May Sinclair | |
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 May Sinclair c. 1912 | |
| Born | Mary Amelia St. Clair 24 August 1863 Rock Ferry, Cheshire, England |
| Died | 14 November 1946 (aged 83) Bierton, Buckinghamshire, England |
| Occupation | Novelist and poet |
| Nationality | British |
May Sinclair was the pseudonym of Mary Amelia St. Clair (24 August 1863 – 14 November 1946), a popular British writer who wrote about two dozen novels, short stories and poetry.[1] She was an active suffragist, and member of the Woman Writers' Suffrage League. She once dressed up as a demure, rebel Jane Austen for a suffrage fundraising event.[2] 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 (1915–1967), in The Egoist, April 1918.
- ^ Bookrags biography
- ^ Looser, Devoney (2017). The Making of Jane Austen. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 174. ISBN 978-1421422824.