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Georgette Heyer

2012-01-06T12:00:08Z

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(16 August 1902 - 4 July 1974) Georgette Heyer was a British novelist. She is well-known for her historical romances and she especially established the subgenre Regency romance. Heyer's Regencies were inspired by Jane Austen.

== Her Life ==

Heyer was born in 1902 in Wimbledon, London, where she mostly grew up. Her father, George Heyer, was a school teacher at King’s College School with much aspiration but also support for her daughter’s literary ambitions. Heyer’s mother, Sylvia, was the daughter of a Thames tugboat owner. Georgette was the only girl and the eldest of three children. Her birth was followed by that of Boris in 1906 and Frank in 1911.
At the age of 23 and shortly after her father’s death in 1925, Heyer married Ronald Rougier, a mining engineer. She continued to use her birth name as a pen name for her books though. Two years after the marriage, Heyer followed her husband to Tanganyika where he worked. One year later they moved to Macedonia for same reasons. There, Heyer nearly died due to an erratically administered anaesthetic in a dentist’s chair. Unhappy in his career, Ronald quit his mining work, and they moved back to London in 1929, which was only possible through Heyer's writing success. After Ronald had had a failed partnership venture, the family moved to Horsham, Sussex, where Ronald opened a sports shop. However, Heyer now was the main provisioner of the family’s well being, writing one crime and one historical novel per year between 1934 and 1941. In 1932, she gave birth to Richard, their only boy and child. Only little is known about her private affairs for she was opposed to any form of publicity and refused to answer questions regarding her private life by merely stating: “You will find me in the books”. Being a lifelong smoker, Georgette Heyer died of lung cancer on 4 July 1974.

== Her Literary Work ==

At the age of 17 Heyer wrote her first novel, ''The Black Moth''. It is a historical adventure tale which she first told her sick brother Boris during a convalescent holiday to entertain him. Her father, impressed with his daughter's imagination, encouraged her to write down the story. He sent it to the literary agent Leonard P. Moore who arranged the necessary steps for its publication by Constable in 1921. The novel was an instant success. Many more best-selling novels followed, totalling in 57 literary works. Through her own love for one particular period of British history, Heyer forged a new subgenre of historical novel – the Regency. Her stories stand out through and impress with its well researched and detailed knowledge of the former living conditions, its nimble-witted dialogs and its plastic characters.

== Bibliography ==

'''Historical novels'''

''The Black Moth'' (1921), ''The Transformation of Philip Jettan'' (1923), ''The Great Roxhythe'' (1923), ''Simon the Coldheart'' (1925)

''These Old Shades'' (1926), ''The Masqueraders'' (1928), ''Beauvallet'' (1929), ''The Conqueror'' (1931)

''Devil’s Cub'' 1932, ''The Convenient Marriage'' (1934), ''Regency Buck'' (1935), ''The Talisman Ring'' (1936)

''An Infamous Army'' (1937), ''Royal Escape'' (1938), ''The Spanish Bride'' (1940), ''The Corinthian'' (1940)

''Faro’s Daughter'' (1941), ''Friday’s Child'' (1944), ''The Reluctant Widow'' (1946), ''The Foundling'' (1948)

''Arabella'' (1949), ''The Grand Sophy'' (1950), ''The Quiet Gentleman'' (1951), ''Cotillion'' (1953)

''The Toll-Gate'' (1954), ''Bath Tangle'' (1955), ''Sprig Muslin'' (1956), ''April Lady'' (1957)

''Sylvester:Or the Wicked Uncle'' (1957), ''Venetia'' (1958), ''The Unknown Ajax'' (1959), ''A Civil Contract'' (1961)

''The Nonesuch'' (1961), ''False Colours'' (1963), ''Frederica'' (1965), ''Black Sheep'' (1966),

''Cousin Kate'' (1968), ''Charity Girl'' (1970), ''Lady of Quality'' (1971), ''My Lord John'' (1975)

'''Crime novels'''

''Footsteps in the Dark'' (1932), ''Why Shoot a Butler?'' (1933), ''The Unfinished Clue'' (1934), ''Death in the Stocks'' (1935)

''Behold, Here’s Poison'' (1936), ''They Found Him Dead'' (1937), ''A Blunt Instrument'' (1938), ''No Wind of Blame'' (1939)

''Envious Casca'' (1941), ''Penhallow'' (1942), ''Duplicate Death'' (1951), ''Detection Unlimited'' (1953)

'''Contemporary novels'''

''Instead of the Thorn'' (1923), ''Helen'' (1928), Pastel (1929), ''Barren Corn'' (1930)

'''Short stories'''

''Pistols for Two'' (1960)
== Sources ==

Hodge, Jane Aiken. ''The Private World of Georgette Heyer''. London: The Bodley Head, 1984.

http://www.abfar.co.uk/bibliogs/gh_bib.htm

http://www.georgette-heyer.com/bio.html

http://www.historicalnovelsociety.org/solander%20files/dixon.htm

Georgette Heyer

2012-01-06T11:59:33Z

Launemeter:

(16 August 1902 - 4 July 1974) Georgette Heyer was a British novelist. She is well-known for her historical romances and she especially established the subgenre Regency romance. Heyer's Regencies were inspired by Jane Austen.

== Her Life ==

Heyer was born in 1902 in Wimbledon, London, where she mostly grew up. Her father, George Heyer, was a school teacher at King’s College School with much aspiration but also support for her daughter’s literary ambitions. Heyer’s mother, Sylvia, was the daughter of a Thames tugboat owner. Georgette was the only girl and the eldest of three children. Her birth was followed by that of Boris in 1906 and Frank in 1911.
At the age of 23 and shortly after her father’s death in 1925, Heyer married Ronald Rougier, a mining engineer. She continued to use her birth name as a pen name for her books though. Two years after the marriage, Heyer followed her husband to Tanganyika where he worked. One year later they moved to Macedonia for same reasons. There, Heyer nearly died due to an erratically administered anaesthetic in a dentist’s chair. Unhappy in his career, Ronald quit his mining work, and they moved back to London in 1929, which was only possible through Heyer's writing success. After Ronald had had a failed partnership venture, the family moved to Horsham, Sussex, where Ronald opened a sports shop. However, Heyer now was the main provisioner of the family’s well being, writing one crime and one historical novel per year between 1934 and 1941. In 1932, she gave birth to Richard, their only boy and child. Only little is known about her private affairs for she was opposed to any form of publicity and refused to answer questions regarding her private life by merely stating: “You will find me in the books”. Being a lifelong smoker, Georgette Heyer died of lung cancer on 4 July 1974.

== Her Literary Work ==

At the age of 17 Heyer wrote her first novel, ''The Black Moth''. It is a historical adventure tale which she first told her sick brother Boris during a convalescent holiday to entertain him. Her father, impressed with his daughter's imagination, encouraged her to write the story down. He sent it to the literary agent Leonard P. Moore who arranged the necessary steps for its publication by Constable in 1921. The novel was an instant success. Many more best-selling novels followed, totalling in 57 literary works. Through her own love for one particular period of British history, Heyer forged a new subgenre of historical novel – the Regency. Her stories stand out through and impress with its well researched and detailed knowledge of the former living conditions, its nimble-witted dialogs and its plastic characters.

== Bibliography ==

'''Historical novels'''

''The Black Moth'' (1921), ''The Transformation of Philip Jettan'' (1923), ''The Great Roxhythe'' (1923), ''Simon the Coldheart'' (1925)

''These Old Shades'' (1926), ''The Masqueraders'' (1928), ''Beauvallet'' (1929), ''The Conqueror'' (1931)

''Devil’s Cub'' 1932, ''The Convenient Marriage'' (1934), ''Regency Buck'' (1935), ''The Talisman Ring'' (1936)

''An Infamous Army'' (1937), ''Royal Escape'' (1938), ''The Spanish Bride'' (1940), ''The Corinthian'' (1940)

''Faro’s Daughter'' (1941), ''Friday’s Child'' (1944), ''The Reluctant Widow'' (1946), ''The Foundling'' (1948)

''Arabella'' (1949), ''The Grand Sophy'' (1950), ''The Quiet Gentleman'' (1951), ''Cotillion'' (1953)

''The Toll-Gate'' (1954), ''Bath Tangle'' (1955), ''Sprig Muslin'' (1956), ''April Lady'' (1957)

''Sylvester:Or the Wicked Uncle'' (1957), ''Venetia'' (1958), ''The Unknown Ajax'' (1959), ''A Civil Contract'' (1961)

''The Nonesuch'' (1961), ''False Colours'' (1963), ''Frederica'' (1965), ''Black Sheep'' (1966),

''Cousin Kate'' (1968), ''Charity Girl'' (1970), ''Lady of Quality'' (1971), ''My Lord John'' (1975)

'''Crime novels'''

''Footsteps in the Dark'' (1932), ''Why Shoot a Butler?'' (1933), ''The Unfinished Clue'' (1934), ''Death in the Stocks'' (1935)

''Behold, Here’s Poison'' (1936), ''They Found Him Dead'' (1937), ''A Blunt Instrument'' (1938), ''No Wind of Blame'' (1939)

''Envious Casca'' (1941), ''Penhallow'' (1942), ''Duplicate Death'' (1951), ''Detection Unlimited'' (1953)

'''Contemporary novels'''

''Instead of the Thorn'' (1923), ''Helen'' (1928), Pastel (1929), ''Barren Corn'' (1930)

'''Short stories'''

''Pistols for Two'' (1960)
== Sources ==

Hodge, Jane Aiken. ''The Private World of Georgette Heyer''. London: The Bodley Head, 1984.

http://www.abfar.co.uk/bibliogs/gh_bib.htm

http://www.georgette-heyer.com/bio.html

http://www.historicalnovelsociety.org/solander%20files/dixon.htm

Georgette Heyer

2012-01-05T15:09:34Z

Launemeter:

(16 August 1902 - 4 July 1974) Georgette Heyer was a British novelist. She is well-known for her historical romances and she especially established the subgenre Regency romance. Heyer's Regencies were inspired by Jane Austen.

== Her Life ==

Heyer was born in 1902 in Wimbledon, London, where she mostly grew up. Her father, George Heyer, was a school teacher at King’s College School with much aspiration but also support for her daughter’s literary ambitions. Heyer’s mother, Sylvia, was the daughter of a Thames tugboat owner. Georgette was the only girl and the eldest of three children. Her birth was followed by that of Boris in 1906 and Frank in 1911.
At the age of 23 and shortly after her father’s death in 1925, Heyer married Ronald Rougier, a mining engineer. She continued to use her birth name as a pen name for her books though. Two years after the marriage, Heyer followed her husband to Tanganyika where he worked. One year later they moved to Macedonia for same reasons. There, Heyer nearly died due to an erratically administered anaesthetic in a dentist’s chair. Unhappy in his career, Ronald quit his mining work, and they moved back to London in 1929, which was only possible through Heyer's writing success. After Ronald had had a failed partnership venture, the family moved to Horsham, Sussex, where Ronald opened a sports shop. However, Heyer now was the main provisioner of the family’s well being, writing one crime and one historical novel per year between 1934 and 1941. In 1932, she gave birth to Richard, their only boy and child. Only little is known about her private affairs for she was opposed to any form of publicity and refused to answer questions regarding her private life by merely stating: “You will find me in the books”. Being a lifelong smoker, Georgette Heyer died of lung cancer on 4 July 1974.

== Her Literary Work ==

At the age of 17 Heyer wrote her first novel, ''The Black Moth''. It is a historical adventure tale which she first told her sick brother Boris during a convalescent to entertain him. Her father, impressed with his daughter's imagination, encouraged her to write the story down. He sent it to the literary agent Leonard P. Moore who arranged the necessary steps for its publication by Constable in 1921. The novel was an instant success. Many more best-selling novels followed, totalling in 57 literary works. Through her own love for one particular period of British history, Heyer forged a new subgenre of historical novel – the Regency. Her stories stand out through and impress with its well researched and detailed knowledge of the former living conditions, its nimble-witted dialogs and its plastic characters.

== Bibliography ==

'''Historical novels'''

''The Black Moth'' (1921), ''The Transformation of Philip Jettan'' (1923), ''The Great Roxhythe'' (1923), ''Simon the Coldheart'' (1925)

''These Old Shades'' (1926), ''The Masqueraders'' (1928), ''Beauvallet'' (1929), ''The Conqueror'' (1931)

''Devil’s Cub'' 1932, ''The Convenient Marriage'' (1934), ''Regency Buck'' (1935), ''The Talisman Ring'' (1936)

''An Infamous Army'' (1937), ''Royal Escape'' (1938), ''The Spanish Bride'' (1940), ''The Corinthian'' (1940)

''Faro’s Daughter'' (1941), ''Friday’s Child'' (1944), ''The Reluctant Widow'' (1946), ''The Foundling'' (1948)

''Arabella'' (1949), ''The Grand Sophy'' (1950), ''The Quiet Gentleman'' (1951), ''Cotillion'' (1953)

''The Toll-Gate'' (1954), ''Bath Tangle'' (1955), ''Sprig Muslin'' (1956), ''April Lady'' (1957)

''Sylvester:Or the Wicked Uncle'' (1957), ''Venetia'' (1958), ''The Unknown Ajax'' (1959), ''A Civil Contract'' (1961)

''The Nonesuch'' (1961), ''False Colours'' (1963), ''Frederica'' (1965), ''Black Sheep'' (1966),

''Cousin Kate'' (1968), ''Charity Girl'' (1970), ''Lady of Quality'' (1971), ''My Lord John'' (1975)

'''Crime novels'''

''Footsteps in the Dark'' (1932), ''Why Shoot a Butler?'' (1933), ''The Unfinished Clue'' (1934), ''Death in the Stocks'' (1935)

''Behold, Here’s Poison'' (1936), ''They Found Him Dead'' (1937), ''A Blunt Instrument'' (1938), ''No Wind of Blame'' (1939)

''Envious Casca'' (1941), ''Penhallow'' (1942), ''Duplicate Death'' (1951), ''Detection Unlimited'' (1953)

'''Contemporary novels'''

''Instead of the Thorn'' (1923), ''Helen'' (1928), Pastel (1929), ''Barren Corn'' (1930)

'''Short stories'''

''Pistols for Two'' (1960)
== Sources ==

Hodge, Jane Aiken. ''The Private World of Georgette Heyer''. London: The Bodley Head, 1984.

http://www.abfar.co.uk/bibliogs/gh_bib.htm

http://www.georgette-heyer.com/bio.html

http://www.historicalnovelsociety.org/solander%20files/dixon.htm

Georgette Heyer

2012-01-05T15:08:47Z

Launemeter:

(16 August 1902 - 4 July 1974) Georgette Heyer was a British novelist. She is well-known for her historical romances and she especially established the subgenre Regency romance. Heyer's Regencies were inspired by Jane Austen.

== Her Life ==

Heyer was born in 1902 in Wimbledon, London, where she mostly grew up. Her father, George Heyer, was a school teacher at King’s College School with much aspiration but also support for her daughter’s literary ambitions. Heyer’s mother, Sylvia, was the daughter of a Thames tugboat owner. Georgette was the only girl and the eldest of three children. Her birth was followed by that of Boris in 1906 and Frank in 1911.
At the age of 23 and shortly after her father’s death in 1925, Heyer married Ronald Rougier, a mining engineer. She continued to use her birth name as a pen name for her books though. Two years after the marriage, Heyer followed her husband to Tanganyika where he worked. One year later they moved to Macedonia for same reasons. There, Heyer nearly died due to an erratically administered anaesthetic in a dentist’s chair. Unhappy in his career, Ronald quit his mining work, and they moved back to London in 1929, which was only possible through Heyer's writing success. After Ronald had had a failed partnership venture, the family moved to Horsham, Sussex, where Ronald opened a sports shop. However, Heyer now was the main provisioner of the family’s well being, writing one crime and one historical novel per year between 1934 and 1941. In 1932, she gave birth to Richard, their only boy and child. Only little is known about her private affairs for she was opposed to any form of publicity and refused to answer questions regarding her private life by merely stating: “You will find me in the books”. Being a lifelong smoker, Georgette Heyer died of lung cancer on 4 July 1974.

== Her Literary Work ==

At the age of 17 Heyer wrote her first novel, ''The Black Moth''. It is a historical adventure tale which she first told her sick brother Boris during a convalescent to entertain him. Her father, impressed with his daughter's imagination, encouraged her to write the story down. He sent it to the literary agent Leonard P. Moore who arranged the necessary steps for its publication by Constable in 1921. The novel was an instant success. Many more best-selling novels followed, totalling in 57 literary works. Through her own love for one particular period of British history, Heyer forged a new subgenre of historical novel – the Regency. Her stories stand out through and impress with its well researched and detailed knowledge of the former living conditions, its nimble-witted dialogs and its plastic characters.

== Bibliography ==

Historical novels

''The Black Moth'' (1921), ''The Transformation of Philip Jettan'' (1923), ''The Great Roxhythe'' (1923), ''Simon the Coldheart'' (1925)

''These Old Shades'' (1926), ''The Masqueraders'' (1928), ''Beauvallet'' (1929), ''The Conqueror'' (1931)

''Devil’s Cub'' 1932, ''The Convenient Marriage'' (1934), ''Regency Buck'' (1935), ''The Talisman Ring'' (1936)

''An Infamous Army'' (1937), ''Royal Escape'' (1938), ''The Spanish Bride'' (1940), ''The Corinthian'' (1940)

''Faro’s Daughter'' (1941), ''Friday’s Child'' (1944), ''The Reluctant Widow'' (1946), ''The Foundling'' (1948)

''Arabella'' (1949), ''The Grand Sophy'' (1950), ''The Quiet Gentleman'' (1951), ''Cotillion'' (1953)

''The Toll-Gate'' (1954), ''Bath Tangle'' (1955), ''Sprig Muslin'' (1956), ''April Lady'' (1957)

''Sylvester:Or the Wicked Uncle'' (1957), ''Venetia'' (1958), ''The Unknown Ajax'' (1959), ''A Civil Contract'' (1961)

''The Nonesuch'' (1961), ''False Colours'' (1963), ''Frederica'' (1965), ''Black Sheep'' (1966),

''Cousin Kate'' (1968), ''Charity Girl'' (1970), ''Lady of Quality'' (1971), ''My Lord John'' (1975)

Crime novels

''Footsteps in the Dark'' (1932), ''Why Shoot a Butler?'' (1933), ''The Unfinished Clue'' (1934), ''Death in the Stocks'' (1935)

''Behold, Here’s Poison'' (1936), ''They Found Him Dead'' (1937), ''A Blunt Instrument'' (1938), ''No Wind of Blame'' (1939)

''Envious Casca'' (1941), ''Penhallow'' (1942), ''Duplicate Death'' (1951), ''Detection Unlimited'' (1953)

Contemporary novels

''Instead of the Thorn'' (1923), ''Helen'' (1928), Pastel (1929), ''Barren Corn'' (1930)

Short stories

''Pistols for Two'' (1960)
== Sources ==

Hodge, Jane Aiken. ''The Private World of Georgette Heyer''. London: The Bodley Head, 1984.

http://www.abfar.co.uk/bibliogs/gh_bib.htm

http://www.georgette-heyer.com/bio.html

http://www.historicalnovelsociety.org/solander%20files/dixon.htm

Georgette Heyer

2012-01-05T15:03:54Z

Launemeter:

(16 August 1902 - 4 July 1974) Georgette Heyer was a British novelist. She is well-known for her historical romances and she especially established the subgenre Regency romance. Heyer's Regencies were inspired by Jane Austen.

== Her Life ==

Heyer was born in 1902 in Wimbledon, London, where she mostly grew up. Her father, George Heyer, was a school teacher at King’s College School with much aspiration but also support for her daughter’s literary ambitions. Heyer’s mother, Sylvia, was the daughter of a Thames tugboat owner. Georgette was the only girl and the eldest of three children. Her birth was followed by that of Boris in 1906 and Frank in 1911.
At the age of 23 and shortly after her father’s death in 1925, Heyer married Ronald Rougier, a mining engineer. She continued to use her birth name as a pen name for her books though. Two years after the marriage, Heyer followed her husband to Tanganyika where he worked. One year later they moved to Macedonia for same reasons. There, Heyer nearly died due to an erratically administered anaesthetic in a dentist’s chair. Unhappy in his career and merely made possible by Heyer’s writing success, Ronald quit his mining work, and they moved back to London in 1929. After Ronald had a failed partnership venture, the family moved to Horsham, Sussex, where Ronald opened a sports shop. However, Heyer now was the main provisioner of the family’s well being, writing one crime and one historical novel per year between 1934 and 1941. In 1932, she gave birth to Richard, their only boy and child. Only little is known about her private affairs for she was opposed to any form of publicity and refused to answer questions regarding her private life by merely stating: “You will find me in the books”. Being a lifelong smoker, Georgette Heyer died of lung cancer on 4 July 1974.

== Her Literary Work ==

At the age of 17 Heyer wrote her first novel, ''The Black Moth''. It is a historical adventure tale which she first told her sick brother Boris during a convalescent to entertain him. Her father, impressed with his daughter's imagination, encouraged her to write the story down. He sent it to the literary agent Leonard P. Moore who arranged the necessary steps for its publication by Constable in 1921. The novel was an instant success. Many more best-selling novels followed, totalling in 57 books. Through her own love for one particular period of British history, Heyer forged a new subgenre of historical novel – the Regency. Her stories stand out through and impress with its well researched and detailed knowledge of the former living conditions, its nimble-witted dialogs and plastic characters.

== Bibliography ==

Historical novels

''The Black Moth'' (1921), ''The Transformation of Philip Jettan'' (1923), ''The Great Roxhythe'' (1923), ''Simon the Coldheart'' (1925)

''These Old Shades'' (1926), ''The Masqueraders'' (1928), ''Beauvallet'' (1929), ''The Conqueror'' (1931)

''Devil’s Cub'' 1932, ''The Convenient Marriage'' (1934), ''Regency Buck'' (1935), ''The Talisman Ring'' (1936)

''An Infamous Army'' (1937), ''Royal Escape'' (1938), ''The Spanish Bride'' (1940), ''The Corinthian'' (1940)

''Faro’s Daughter'' (1941), ''Friday’s Child'' (1944), ''The Reluctant Widow'' (1946), ''The Foundling'' (1948)

''Arabella'' (1949), ''The Grand Sophy'' (1950), ''The Quiet Gentleman'' (1951), ''Cotillion'' (1953)

''The Toll-Gate'' (1954), ''Bath Tangle'' (1955), ''Sprig Muslin'' (1956), ''April Lady'' (1957)

''Sylvester:Or the Wicked Uncle'' (1957), ''Venetia'' (1958), ''The Unknown Ajax'' (1959), ''A Civil Contract'' (1961)

''The Nonesuch'' (1961), ''False Colours'' (1963), ''Frederica'' (1965), ''Black Sheep'' (1966),

''Cousin Kate'' (1968), ''Charity Girl'' (1970), ''Lady of Quality'' (1971), ''My Lord John'' (1975)

Crime novels

''Footsteps in the Dark'' (1932), ''Why Shoot a Butler?'' (1933), ''The Unfinished Clue'' (1934), ''Death in the Stocks'' (1935)

''Behold, Here’s Poison'' (1936), ''They Found Him Dead'' (1937), ''A Blunt Instrument'' (1938), ''No Wind of Blame'' (1939)

''Envious Casca'' (1941), ''Penhallow'' (1942), ''Duplicate Death'' (1951), ''Detection Unlimited'' (1953)

Contemporary novels

''Instead of the Thorn'' (1923), ''Helen'' (1928), Pastel (1929), ''Barren Corn'' (1930)

Short stories

''Pistols for Two'' (1960)
== Sources ==

Hodge, Jane Aiken. ''The Private World of Georgette Heyer''. London: The Bodley Head, 1984.

http://www.abfar.co.uk/bibliogs/gh_bib.htm

http://www.georgette-heyer.com/bio.html

http://www.historicalnovelsociety.org/solander%20files/dixon.htm

May Sinclair

2011-12-06T15:16:10Z

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24 August 1863 - 14 November 1946. British writer, critic, suffragist. Full name Mary Amelia St. Clair.

== Life ==

May Sinclair was born on 24 August 1863 in Rock Ferry, Cheshire and died at the age of 83 in Buckinghamshire, having suffered for 15 years on Parkinson’s Disease. She was the youngest of six children and the only girl. Her father, William Sinclair, was a shipowner who went bankrupt, became an alcoholic and died before she was an adult. Four of her brothers died of congential heart disease, until by 1896 she was her mother's sole support. Her religiously orthodox mother died in 1901.

In her one year of formal education at Cheltenham Ladies Collage, she studied under Dorothea Beale, who encouraged her in her lifelong interest in philosopical idealism. During her time in London in 1913, working at the Medico-Psychological Clinic, she discovered the work of Sigmund Freud and became deeply interested in Freudian psychoanalysis. This influenced many of her later works such as ''The Three Sisters''. She began her professional writing career in 1896 and published her first novel, ''Audrey Craven'', in 1897.
She was the first critic to use the term stream-of-consciousness to describe a literary technique of narration. Sinclair was also a keen supporter of the women's suffrage movement from 1908.

Sinclair wrote 24 novels and two major works of philosophy, as well as numerous poems, short stories, and reviews.

== Works ==

▪ Nakiketas and other poems (1886) as Julian Sinclair & Essays in Verse (1892)

▪ Audrey Craven (1897) & Mr and Mrs Nevill Tyson (1897) also The Tysons

▪ Two Sides Of A Question (1901) & The Divine Fire (1904)

▪ The Helpmate (1907) & The Judgment of Eve (1907) stories

▪ The Immortal Moment (1908) & Outlines of Church History by Rudolf Sohm (1909) translator

▪ The Creators (1910)& The Flaw in the Crystal (1912)

▪ The Three Brontes (1912)& Feminism (1912) pamphlet for Women’s Suffrage League

▪ The Combined Maze (1913) & The Three Sisters (1914)

▪ The Return of the Prodigal (1914) & A Journal of Impressions in Belgium (1915)

▪ The Belfry (1916) & Tasker Jevons: The Real Story (1916)

▪ The Tree of Heaven (1917) & A Defense of Idealism : Some Questions & Conclusions (1917)

▪ Mary Olivier: A Life (1919) & The Romantic (1920)

▪ Mr. Waddington of Wyck (1921) & Life and Death of Harriett Frean (1922)

▪ Anne Severn and the Fieldings (1922) & The New Idealism (1922)

▪ Uncanny Stories (1923) & A Cure of Souls (1924)

▪ The Dark Night: A Novel in Unrhymed Verse (1924) & Arnold Waterlow (1924)

▪ The Rector of Wyck (1925) & Far End (1926)

▪ The Allinghams (1927) & History of Anthony Waring (1927)

▪ Fame (1929) & Tales Told by Simpson (1930) stories

▪ The Intercessor, and Other Stories (1931)

== Sources ==

Boll, Theophilus E. M. ''Miss May Sinclair: Novelist. A Biographical and Critical Introduction''. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1973.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Sinclair

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wsinclair.htm

http://modernism.research.yale.edu/wiki/index.php/May_Sinclair

http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/ideasv62/raitt.htm