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May Sinclair : Life and Death of Harriet Frean

[Lehmann's novel "Dusty Answer" has a structure] 'possibly derived from May Sinclair's bleak and brilliant portrait of misguided self sacrifice, "Life and Death of Harriet Frean", which Rosamond read on its publication in 1922 and much admired'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Rosamond Lehmann      Print: Book

May Sinclair : The Combined Maze

Charlotte Mew 'felt stunned' by May Sinclair's novel "The Combined Maze" (published February 1913), telling Mrs Catherine Dawson Scott, '"it has completely got and kept hold of me"'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Mew      Print: Book

May Sinclair : Mr Waddington of Wyck

'Tuesday 6th July. ?Mr Waddington of Wyck? ? (May Sinclair). Back to the office today and find that young Reid has done pretty well. Kept my work fairly up-to-date. He has also kept quiet re-meeting my family last week. Smith is back too, after a quiet fortnight and he recommends Louis Golding to me. He (Smith) is reading ?Sicilian Noon?. I must try also that thing I have heard so much about ?Lolly Willowes? by Sylvia Townsend Warner. '

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

May Sinclair : The Tree of Heaven

'Saturday 6th November. ?The Tree of Heaven? - (May Sinclair). Bad day on the Round, but Dad has done well. Mother is ill and expect to have to go to hospital. We yarned about the Aldermania elections. If the Labour Party in Birkenhead watch their step they will have a majority after the Alderman elections.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

May Sinclair [pseud. Mary Amelia St. Clair] : Mr Waddington of Wyck

'As for Mother I'm as usual lost in amazement at the amount she gets through without turning a hair. The "Cat and the Fiddle book" I thought a masterpiece — she would have been pleased to see me giggling over it. Fortunately just as I had decided that I was ill there came an excellent batch of books including "Vera" and "Mr Waddington of Wyck" — how clever both of them in their way!

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Bell      Print: Book

May Sinclair : The Three Brontes

'March 11 [1914]
Joined Hampstead Library £1..5.
Books read March [1914:] M^rs Sewell
His Grace of Osmond
Helen Keller Out of the Dark
A Lady of Quality.
The 3 Bronte's
The broken [sic] Halo.
Bridges Poems.
Life of Octavia Hill.
Life of Florence Nightingale Vol. 1
In the Guardianship of God
Rose o' the River. Wiggin'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Bickersteth Cook      Print: Book

May Sinclair : The Divine Fire

'Here I have been reading any amount of rubbish: among them (the rubbishes) two quite admirable shockers by John (Prester) Buchan: THE POWERHOUSE and THE THIRTY NINE STEPS. Both cheap editions by Blackwood and excellent fun. I wish I could write shockers. I worship them. Then a very clever sevenpenny (Heinemann) The Divine Fire by May Sinclair, which might have been excellent if people didn't TALK so much. I hate people to say the same thing twice over ... By this mail I shall send you the first half of MARCHING ON TANGA ...'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Brett Young      Print: Book

May Sinclair : Three Sisters

'Read "3 Sisters". Went down to Oakwood Court to see Mother.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Verena Pennefather      Print: Book

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