May Sinclair's Life and Death of Harriett Frean is credited with being an important contribution to modernist aesthetics. Bookman (61, March 1922) noted that it was "a book of singular beauty" and Times Literary Supplement said of the book that "every word does its work." (From its February 2, 1922, issue.) It's a book at once unsettling and at the same time rich with irony, as rewarding to the reader now as it was generations ago when Sinclair first published it in 1922.
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“A little masterpiece.” —New Statesman
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?In a few short pages,? writes Francine Prose in her Introduction, ?May Sinclair succeeds in rendering the oppressive weight and strength of the chains of family love.? Young Harriett Frean is taught that ?behaving beautifully? is paramount, and she becomes a self-sacrificing woman whose choices prove devastating to herself and to those who love her most. An early pioneer of
stream-of-consciousness writing, Sinclair employs the technique brilliantly in this finely crafted psychological novel. Evoking the style and depth of her contemporaries Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence, Sinclair?s haunting narrative also reflects her keen interest in the theories of Jung and Freud. The text of this Modern Library 20th Century Rediscovery was set from the first American edition of 1922. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
stream-of-consciousness writing, Sinclair employs the technique brilliantly in this finely crafted psychological novel. Evoking the style and depth of her contemporaries Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence, Sinclair?s haunting narrative also reflects her keen interest in the theories of Jung and Freud. The text of this Modern Library 20th Century Rediscovery was set from the first American edition of 1922. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Black's Lane, Aunt Harriett, Hilton Frean, Miss Walker, Connie Pennefather, Connie Hancock, Miss Frean, The Spectator, Sarah Barmby, Lizzie Pierce, Priscilla Heaven, Harriett Frean, Red Campion Browse Sample Pages:
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Black's Lane, Aunt Harriett, Hilton Frean, Miss Walker, Connie Pennefather, Connie Hancock, Miss Frean, The Spectator, Sarah Barmby, Lizzie Pierce, Priscilla Heaven, Harriett Frean, Red Campion Browse Sample Pages:
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