In the turbulent landscape of early twentieth-century literature, few writers navigated the transition from Victorian sensibilities to modernist innovation with the skill and prescience of May Sinclair. Born Mary Amelia St. Clair Sinclair on August 24, 1863, in Rock Ferry, Cheshire, and dying on November 14, 1946, in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, Sinclair lived through one of the most transformative periods in literary…
“The slight lapse of time, so far from dulling or blurring that memory, crystallized it and made it sharp and clean.”
Neighbourhood:
LGBTQ+ Poets, Modernist Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Spirituality, Wonder, Irony
Nora Hopper Chesson, born Nora Hopper on 2 January 1871 in Exeter, England, and dead on 14 April 1906, belongs to that compelling company of poets whose work has remained more vivid than their public reputation. Her life was brief, her published oeuvre relatively small, and the surviving record of her private circumstances incomplete. Yet the poems she left behind possess a distinctive pressure and atmosphere: they a…
“At midnight on Christmas night all water turns into wine.”
Neighbourhood:
Irish Poets, Pre-Raphaelite Poets, Symbolist Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Sorrow, Tenderness
