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May Sinclair was the pseudonym of Mary Amelia St. Clair (1863 - 1946). Sinclair was a British writer who wrote short stories, novels and poems. As a literary critic she coined the term "stream of consciousness". Mary Olivier: A Life (1919) is her autobiographical novel. She was a member of the Women Writers Suffrage League, the Aristotelian Society, and the first group to practice Freudian analysis in England. Mary Olivier is a young Victorian girl who is struggling with life's questions. Her rigid society does not allow a girl to ask questions concerning philosophy or literature. Mary and her brother witness their father's strict jealous possessiveness and her mother's manipulations. They come to see their parents as real people with flaws.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Edwardian Theatre, Aug 2 2002
By Jim Stewart (Western Australia.) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Mary Olivier: A Life (Paperback)
May Sinclairs novel is a subtle and quite devastating disection of a females life in the Victorian era. Stifled by a rigid sense of what it is important for a girl to aspire to, the sensitve and independent character of Mary Olivier strives to find her own answers to lifes mysteries. She cannot ask anyone about literature, Arts or the more (for her) burning philosophical questions of meaning and substance. When she does she is early on taken to task by the very men she assumed would assist her. This is the key to the subtlety of the dialogue between Mary and her male friends.Considerable time is also taken up with Mary's relationship with her family members. This a satisfying book and the reader will be richly rewarded in following the life of Mary Olivier.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A superb (if flawed) modernist Bildungsroman, Jul 5 2002
By Jay Dickson (Portland, OR) - See all my reviews
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MARY OLIVIER: A LIFE came out serialized in the same issues of THE LITTLE REVIEW as James Joyce's ULYSSES, and has never received its proper due for its achievement. part of this may also stem that it was written ten to fifteen years after the great spate of Edwardian parricidal Bildungsromans, which include Joyce's PORTRAIT, Lawrence's SONS AND LOVERS, Maugham's OF HUMAN BONDAGE, Bennett's CLAYHANGER and Butler's THE WAY OF ALL FLESH. Yet MARY OLIVIER deserves at the very least to be in such fine company. May Sinclair herself coined the term "stream-of-consciousness" to describe the technique of Dorothy Richardson, and she uses this technique herself here in recounting the life oif a young woman from the Victorian Sixties to late middle age. The results are astonishing: it may remind you a bit of Joyce's PORTRAIT, and a bit of Katherine Mansfield's Burnell Family stories, but it's also like neither of them. Mary and her brothers must revoilt against their father's jealous possessiveness of his wife and their mother's sweet manipulativeness and doctrinaire piety, but they can never bring themselves to fully hate them. they realize that their parents are also actual people, flawed and yearning to love, and Sinclair outstrips many other writers of Bildungsromans by giving the parents their due. The last third of the book (after the father dies) is a bit tedious, but the novel is a real triumph, especially in its presentation of the way children think about their parents, the world around them, and even philosophical matters.
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