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Overview
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.
Synopsis
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.
The Economist
Suzanne Raitt offers a sympathetic and intellectually telling portrait of a writer who lived at a time when combining high artistic ambitions with husband and children seemed near-impossible for many women.
Editorials
Griffiths
A serene, elegant biography by Suzanne Raitt...Raitt makes the vision rather thatn the bedraggled day-to-day the basis for a beautifully disciplines, shockingly unrevealing portrait.—London Review of Books