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Fascinated as she was by the lives of the Brontë siblings, May Sinclair loosely based her subtly sensual, quietly insurrectionary 1914 novel The Three Sisters on the Haworth moor milieu of the three literary Brontë sisters. Alice, Gwenda, and Mary Cartaret are the daughters of the Vicar of Garth, an abusive father with rigid, selfish expectations for female behavior. Hope of rescue seems to dawn in the person of an idealistic young doctor in the village, but this is no Austen romance. Described with Edwardian restraint, it is still sexual passion that is the underlying theme of the story: the…mehr

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Fascinated as she was by the lives of the Brontë siblings, May Sinclair loosely based her subtly sensual, quietly insurrectionary 1914 novel The Three Sisters on the Haworth moor milieu of the three literary Brontë sisters. Alice, Gwenda, and Mary Cartaret are the daughters of the Vicar of Garth, an abusive father with rigid, selfish expectations for female behavior. Hope of rescue seems to dawn in the person of an idealistic young doctor in the village, but this is no Austen romance. Described with Edwardian restraint, it is still sexual passion that is the underlying theme of the story: the rebellion of human sensuality in almost every major character in the story against the artificial constraints of conventional Society and Religion. Sinclair, herself a fascinating hybrid of Victorian and modern, shows the desperate, inertial ennui inherent in the lives of unmarried late-Victorian women dependent on their male guardians but fired by dreams and desires of their own. Sinclair's gently seditious fiction is always deeply imbued with philosophy as well as human psychology, giving it rich layers of interest.
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May Sinclair, whose real name was Mary Amelia St. Clair, was a prolific writer and a significant figure in the early 20th century literary world. Born on August 24, 1863, in Cheshire, England, she was not only a novelist but also a poet, critic, and an active member of the woman suffrage movement. Sinclair's work often intersected with her intellectual interests in philosophy and psychoanalysis, and she is credited with introducing the term 'stream of consciousness' to the literary lexicon in her review of Dorothy Richardson's novels (Blunt, 2002). In her own writing, Sinclair explored themes of female autonomy and identity, as seen in one of her most well-known works, 'The Three Sisters' (1914), which engaged with the internal lives and struggles of three sisters living in a repressive Victorian society. Her literary style often delved into psychological character studies and challenged traditional societal norms. Alongside her fiction, Sinclair's critical essays and philosophical writings contributed to the modernist movement. She published over twenty novels, two volumes of poetry, and numerous philosophical works before her death on November 14, 1946, in Buckinghamshire. Sinclair's contributions to literature and the women's suffrage movement remain a lasting part of her legacy (Raitt, 2000).