The Belfry is a novel written by May Sinclair and published in 1916. The story is set in England during World War I and follows the life of a young woman named Anne Warwick. Anne is a member of the upper class and is engaged to a soldier who is fighting in the war. She becomes disillusioned with her privileged life and begins to question the morality of the war. Anne's journey of self-discovery takes her to a small village where she meets a group of pacifists who are opposed to the war. She becomes involved with their cause and begins to see the war in a different light. However, her…mehr
The Belfry is a novel written by May Sinclair and published in 1916. The story is set in England during World War I and follows the life of a young woman named Anne Warwick. Anne is a member of the upper class and is engaged to a soldier who is fighting in the war. She becomes disillusioned with her privileged life and begins to question the morality of the war. Anne's journey of self-discovery takes her to a small village where she meets a group of pacifists who are opposed to the war. She becomes involved with their cause and begins to see the war in a different light. However, her engagement to the soldier and her loyalty to her country create a conflict within her. The novel explores themes of class, war, pacifism, and morality. It is a powerful commentary on the social and political climate of England during World War I. The Belfry is considered to be one of May Sinclair's most important works and is a significant contribution to the literature of the time.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
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. May Sinclair was also a significant critic in the area of modernist poetry and prose and she is attributed with first using the term stream of consciousness in a literary context, when reviewing the first volumes of Dorothy Richardson's novel sequence Pilgrimage (1915-67), in The Egoist, April 1918. From 1896 Sinclair wrote professionally to support herself and her mother, who died in 1901. An active feminist, Sinclair treated a number of themes relating to the position of women and marriage. 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 to join the Munro Ambulance Corps, a charitable organization (which included Lady Dorothie Feilding, Elsie Knocker and Mairi Chisholm) that aided wounded Belgian soldiers on the Western Front in Flanders. She was sent home after only a few weeks at the front. Her 1913 novel The Combined Maze, the story of a London clerk and the two women he loves, was highly praised by critics, including George Orwell, while Agatha Christie considered it one of the greatest English novels of its time.
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