May Sinclair, Mary Olivier: A Life

Leigh Wilson

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.08: English Writing and Culture of the early Twentieth Century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: Chris Baldick (Goldsmiths College, University of London), Peter Childs (Birmingham Newman University), Louise McDonald (Birmingham Newman University), Andrew Radford (University of Glasgow)

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First circulation or publication 1919

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England (Country of Origin)

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Novel
- Bildungsroman

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In between

The Tree of Heaven

(1917) and

Mary Olivier: A Life

(1919), May Sinclair published a review in

The Egoist

entitled “The Novels of Dorothy Richardson” (April 1918, pp. 57-9), and in the differences between her novels of 1917 and 1919, it is possible to see the impact of Richardson’s work on Sinclair.

The Tree of Heaven begins in 1895 and follows the various cataclysms that shaped Edwardian society via a single family, the Harrisons. Through the children of the family, Sinclair deals with, for example, technological change, the suffrage movement, and the aesthetic innovations that began in Europe before the First World War. For Sinclair, and for the family, the greatest cataclysm of all is that of the war, before which the others – political and aesthetic – have to give

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Citation: Wilson, Leigh. "Mary Olivier: A Life". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 06 November 2003 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=3695, accessed 27 November 2024.]

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