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Amelia St. Clair was born on theth Augustin Rock Ferry, Cheshire, Her father was a Liverpool shipowner who, after being made bankrupt, became an alcoholic and died whilst May was still a child.
The family then moved to Ilford, just outside London and, after a solitary year of education, May was required to stay home and help look after her older brothers, four of whom were suffering from fatal congenital heart disease.
Despite this difficult start May was determined to pursue a literary career, FromMay wrote professionally to support herself and her mother, By the turn of the century she was producing not only poetry volumes but short stories, novels and some nonfiction.
She was an active feminist and supporter of the Suffrage Movement, her literary talents help to shred ideas that the suffragists were driven by sexual frustration because of the shortage of men.
Hernovel The Combined Maze, the story of a London clerk and the two women he loves, was highly praised by many, including George Orwell, while Agatha Christie considered it one of

the greatest English novels of its time.
In, she volunteered to join the Munro Ambulance Corps on the Western Front in Flanders, Although her time there was shortlived the experience was later reflected in both prose and poetry, She published several poetry volumes as well as writing early criticism on Imagism and several poets of the movement.
Her novels were now also influenced by modernist techniques and her supernatural short stories are increasingly seen as valuable additions to the genre.
From the lates, she suffered from the onset of Parkinson's disease, and her writing career was effectively over.
May Sinclair died on theth November, She wasand buried at St JohnatHampstead's churchyard, London, Weird and uncanny but also poignant Librarian Note: There is than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.
sitelink See this thread for information, May Sinclair was the pseudonym of Mary Amelia St, Clair, a popular British writer who wrote about two dozen novels, short stories and poetry, She was an active suffragist, and member of the Woman Writers Suffrage League, May Sinclair was also a significant critic, in the area of modernist poetry and prose and she is attributed with first using the term stream of consciousness in a literary context, when reviewing the first volumes of Dorothy Richardsons novel sequence Pilgrimage, in The Egoist, April.
Librarian Note: There is than one author in the GoodReads database with this name, sitelink See this thread for information, May Sinclair was the pseudonym of Mary Amelia St, Clair, a popular British writer who wrote about two dozen novels, short stories and poetry, She was an active suffragist, and member of the Woman Writers' Suffrage League, May Sinclair was also a significant critic, in the area of modernist poetry and prose and she is attributed with first using the term stream of consciousness in a literary context, when reviewing the first volumes of Dorothy Richardson's novel sequence Pilgrimage, in The Egoist, April.
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