May Sinclair 2017
DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474415750.003.0002
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‘Dying to Live’: Remembering and Forgetting May Sinclair

Abstract: For Sinclair, the past was a wound. She feared being unable to escape it, and she feared in turn her own persistence in a form that she could not control. Mystic ecstasy – what she called the “new mysticism” – was a way of entering a timeless realm in which there was no longer any past to damage her. But she was also fascinated by what could never be left behind – hence her interest in heredity, the unconscious, and the supernatural. However, the immanence of the future can also emancipate us from the past, i… Show more

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“…Following its success, the writer Ford Madox Ford (1931: 326) stated, ‘Parties were given at which examinations were held as to the speeches of the characters in Miss Sinclair's book’. Sinclair traveled around America, meeting the likes of Ralph Waldo Emerson and William James, and going motoring with President Theodore Roosevelt; on this and other anecdotes, see Raitt (2000: 95–96). She became friends with H. G. Wells, W. B. Yeats and Thomas Hardy.…”
Section: Sinclair and Early Twentieth-century British Philosophymentioning
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“…Following its success, the writer Ford Madox Ford (1931: 326) stated, ‘Parties were given at which examinations were held as to the speeches of the characters in Miss Sinclair's book’. Sinclair traveled around America, meeting the likes of Ralph Waldo Emerson and William James, and going motoring with President Theodore Roosevelt; on this and other anecdotes, see Raitt (2000: 95–96). She became friends with H. G. Wells, W. B. Yeats and Thomas Hardy.…”
Section: Sinclair and Early Twentieth-century British Philosophymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Toward the end of her life Sinclair became ill, and she wrote nothing after 1927. For more on Sinclair's biography, see Boll (1973), Raitt (2000), and Saunders (2007).…”
Section: Sinclair and Early Twentieth-century British Philosophymentioning
confidence: 99%
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