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The Return of the Prodigal
The Return of the Prodigal
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Miss May Sinclair, whose very literary talent continues to occupy itself chiefly with literary figures for the benefit of literary readers, wrote a preface for the English edition of the stories she offers in "The Return of the Prodigal" in which she asked that they be given the same consideration as so many novels. Only one of the stories, "The Cosmopolitan," which is as long as a brief novel, deserves especial attention. It is about a woman who sacrificed herself first to her father — surely the deadliest bore in the year's fiction — and later to a cause. The story which furnishes the title for the volume is the least happy of the lot. The action is well enough but the details are without verisimilitude. Miss Sinclair's conception of the inside of a man who made himself a, millionaire in the Chicago pork-packing industry is possible ; her conception of the outside of him is absurd. But there is fun — usually cruel fun — in some of the literary stories, like "The AVrackham Papers," which Miss Sinclair understands so well how to do. There is even, in "Appearances," enough sentiment to appease the appetite of the American magazine editor — for whom, no doubt, it was put there. LucÍan Cary.
May Sinclair was the pseudonym of Mary Amelia St. Clair (1863 - 1946), a popular British writer who wrote about two dozen novels, short stories and poetry. She was an active suffragist, and member of the Woman Writers' Suffrage League. She was also a significant critic, in the area of modernist poetry and prose; the literary term 'stream of consciousness' is attributed to her.
From 1896 she wrote professionally, to support herself and her mother, who died in 1901. She treated a number of themes relating to the position of women, and marriage. She also wrote non-fiction based on studies of philosophy, particularly German idealism. Her works sold well in the United States.
Around 1913, at the Medico-Psychological Clinic in London, she became interested in psychoanalytic thought, and introduced matter related to Sigmund Freud's teaching in her novels. In 1914 she volunteered for ambulance duty in Belgium, at the start of World War I. She was able to endure only a few weeks at the front; she wrote about the experience in both prose and poetry. ---From Wikipedia
Miss May Sinclair, whose very literary talent continues to occupy itself chiefly with literary figures for the benefit of literary readers, wrote a preface for the English edition of the stories she offers in "The Return of the Prodigal" in which she asked that they be given the same consideration as so many novels. Only one of the stories, "The Cosmopolitan," which is as long as a brief novel, deserves especial attention. It is about a woman who sacrificed herself first to her father — surely the deadliest bore in the year's fiction — and later to a cause. The story which furnishes the title for the volume is the least happy of the lot. The action is well enough but the details are without verisimilitude. Miss Sinclair's conception of the inside of a man who made himself a, millionaire in the Chicago pork-packing industry is possible ; her conception of the outside of him is absurd. But there is fun — usually cruel fun — in some of the literary stories, like "The AVrackham Papers," which Miss Sinclair understands so well how to do. There is even, in "Appearances," enough sentiment to appease the appetite of the American magazine editor — for whom, no doubt, it was put there. LucÍan Cary.
May Sinclair was the pseudonym of Mary Amelia St. Clair (1863 - 1946), a popular British writer who wrote about two dozen novels, short stories and poetry. She was an active suffragist, and member of the Woman Writers' Suffrage League. She was also a significant critic, in the area of modernist poetry and prose; the literary term 'stream of consciousness' is attributed to her.
From 1896 she wrote professionally, to support herself and her mother, who died in 1901. She treated a number of themes relating to the position of women, and marriage. She also wrote non-fiction based on studies of philosophy, particularly German idealism. Her works sold well in the United States.
Around 1913, at the Medico-Psychological Clinic in London, she became interested in psychoanalytic thought, and introduced matter related to Sigmund Freud's teaching in her novels. In 1914 she volunteered for ambulance duty in Belgium, at the start of World War I. She was able to endure only a few weeks at the front; she wrote about the experience in both prose and poetry. ---From Wikipedia
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