The Three Sisters by May Sinclair, Fiction, Literary, Romance

Author, poet, critic, and suffragist Mary Amelia St. Clair was a contemporary of and acquainted with Henry James, Thomas Hardy, Ford Madox Ford, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and Rebecca West, among others. She served as an ambulance driver in World War I, and produced poetry and fiction based on it.Her novel Mr. Waddington of Wyk was a social comedy. The Three Sisters is Sinclair's first psychological novel, drawing upon her interest in the work of Sigmund Freud. It an early example of the transition from classic realism to modernism, Influenced by Imagism, and structured around epiphanies, images and symbols. It's also considered a precursor to her later novels Mary Oliver and Harriet Frean, using knowledge of psychoanalysis and acknowledging the importance of the character's internal reality.

• | Author: May Sinclair
• | Publisher: Aegypan
• | Publication Date: Sep 01, 2007
• | Number of Pages: 260 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 1603122869
• | ISBN-13: 9781603122863