May Sinclair (1863-1946) has been compared, in stature and choice of themes, to George Eliot and Virginia Woolf. She was born in Liverpool. Her father, an unsuccessful businessman in the shipping trade, abandoned his family, leaving May, with little formal education, to support herself and her mother with her poetry, translations, criticism, and popular literary fiction that evolved into "stream of consciousness" writing (a term she coined). An active Suffragette, influenced by Freud and Jung, her best known works are psychological novels. Rediscovered by Virago in the '80s, her novels include MARY OLIVER: A LIFE, and THE THREE SISTERS.
