May Sinclair, Life and Death of Harriet Frean

Leigh Wilson
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Life and Death of Harriett Frean

was published first in serial form in

North American Review

through the winter of 1920/21. It came out in novel form in Anglo-American modernism's

annus mirabilis

, 1922, sharing its publication date with

Jacob's Room

and with the book versions of

Ulysses

and

The Waste Land

. Beyond this, the novel's modernist credentials have been noted by most critics, from contemporary reviewers onwards. Rather than take that for granted, however, this article will investigate the novel's modernism. It will argue that the novel's significance resides in the problems it throws up regarding modernism, rather than simply in its modernist status.

Harriett Frean is a very different kind of novel from the writer's fifteen previous ones. May Sinclair was 59 in 1922, at least

2849 words

Citation: Wilson, Leigh. "Life and Death of Harriet Frean". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 13 November 2002 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=3942, accessed 19 March 2024.]

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