Synopses & Reviews
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.
Review
"Raitt's thorough analysis of Mary Oliver and Harriet 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."--English Literature in Transition 1880-1920
Review
"Raitt's thorough analysis of Mary Oliver and Harriet 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."--English Literature in Transition 1880-1920
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-299) and index.
Table of Contents
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 and Mary Olivier: A Life
8. The Twilight Years and Life and Death of Harriet Frean