May Sinclair A Modern Victorian [Hardcover]

May Sinclair (1863-1946) was a bestselling novelist who was one of the first British women to go out to the Belgian front in 1914. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian draws on newly discovered manuscripts to tell the story of this woman whose emotional isolation bears witness to the great price Victorian women had to pay for their intellectual freedom.

1863-1897
1. Learning Philosophy
2. A Crisis of Love and Faith
1898-1908
3. Fame and the Literary Marketplace
4. Celibacy and Psychoanalysis
1908-1918
5. War
6. Experiments in Poetry
1919-1946
7. Sublimation andMary Olivier: A Life
8. The Twilight Years andLife and Death of Harriet Frean

Raitt's thorough analysis ofMary OliverandHarriet Frean, based on psychoanalytical criticism, is accurate and detailed.... The specialist and the general reader will profit by reading this serious, impassioned book, which dexterously combines rigorous scholarship and simplicity. --EnglishLiterature in Transition 1880-1920