An academic biography of the suffragist and writer, May Sinclair. Sinclair lived an exceptional life, she  first used of the term ‘stream of consciousness’ in relation to literature in her 1918 review of the first volumes of Dorothy Richardson’s ‘Pilgrimage’ series of novels,  she was also one of the first women to travel out from England to the Belgian Front in the First World War, and she was a marginal figure in the lives of many famous writers, for example Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Ezra Pound, Katharine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf and Charlotte Mew. Sinclair was fiercely private in her lifetime, and refused to provide personal material to biographers. Suzanne Raitt has painstakingly put together this biography from a variety of personal sources, that paints a portrait of a fascinating woman. Containing black and white pictures. Thoroughly recommended.