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Mary Olivier: a Life

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First published: 1919
Pages: 359

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May Sinclair traces a single woman's inner life from infancy to middle age, following Mary Olivier as she grows up in a comfortable but stifling Victorian family. Written in an early stream-of-consciousness style, the novel stays close to Mary's sensations and thoughts as she contends with a possessive mother, the deaths of her brothers, thwarted love, and a hunger for philosophy and independence that her world does not welcome in a daughter. Sinclair, who helped bring the phrase stream of consciousness into English criticism, makes ordinary domestic life feel dense with feeling and quiet rebellion. Semi-autobiographical and formally daring, it stands among the first English novels to render consciousness so directly. First published in 1919. Free to read here in PDF and EPUB.

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May Sinclair

May Sinclair (1863-1946) was a British novelist and critic, an important figure in early modernism who first applied the term 'stream of consciousness' to fiction and wrote perceptively about women's lives.