Escaping the Net: May Sinclair's The Three Sisters and Mary Olivier: A Life

Bowler, Rebecca

Abstract

Abstract: In May Sinclair’s novels The Three Sisters (1914) and Mary Olivier: A Life (1919) the heroines struggle with the constraints of family, religion and stifling morality; they feel both heredity and tradition to be a ‘net’ they are unable to get free of. Some of the female characters find fulfilment in marriage and babies, but for the romantic heroines Gwenda and Mary Oliver sublimative ‘ecstasy’ is posited as a creative way to escape and to reach a form of (incomplete) self-actualisation.

Citation

Bowler, R. Escaping the Net: May Sinclair's The Three Sisters and Mary Olivier: A Life. In British Women's Writing From Brontë to Bloomsbury, 1900-1919. Vol IV. Palgrave Macmillan. Manuscript submitted for publication

• Deposit Date: Jan 16, 2025
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Book Title: British Women's Writing From Brontë to Bloomsbury, 1900-1919. Vol IV.
• Public URL: https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/1048541