Life and Death of Harriet Frean

"A masterpiece." - Walter Allen. A moral fable about the narrow and starved existence that results from self-sacrifice, this novel traces a Victorian woman's suffocating and stunted life. More than a case history of an underdeveloped individual who chooses loyalty to a friendship over the lure of romance, the story criticises the values of 19th-century middle-class society and the irresponsibility and destructiveness that lurk beneath the facade of good manners. About the Author : May Sinclair (1863–1946) was an acclaimed, popular, and prolific novelist, poet, philosopher, translator, and critic. Less well known today than her contemporaries Virginia Woolf and Rebecca West, Sinclair wrote 23 novels, 39 short stories, two philosophical texts, a biography of the Brontë sisters, and several poetry collections. She is widely credited with coining the term "stream of consciousness" and was a patron to the young Erza Pound.