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May Sinclair

(1863–1946) Writer United Kingdom

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May Sinclair was a writer from the United Kingdom, best known for The tree of heaven.

Quick Facts About May Sinclair

Born
August 24, 1863
Died
November 14, 1946
Nationality
United Kingdom
Profession
Writer
Notable works
The tree of heaven
Known for
Life and Death of Harriett Frean

About May Sinclair

May Sinclair was the pseudonym of Mary Amelia St. Clair, a British writer who wrote about two dozen novels, short stories and poetry. 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. 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. She is known for her novels Life and Death of Harriett Frean (1922) and Arnold Waterlow: a Life (1924).

Biography source: Wikipedia

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