May Sinclair becomes incapacitated by illness
Poet involved
What happened
Around 1929, May Sinclair became incapacitated by illness. The chronology gives no more precise diagnosis or date, but records the illness as a major change in the later part of her life. The event occurred after a long and exceptionally productive literary career centred largely on London.
Literary impact
The illness marked a major interruption to Sinclair’s active literary career. Coming after decades of sustained publication, criticism, philosophical work, and public literary activity, her incapacity helps explain the reduced output recorded in the final years of the chronology.
Source: Attached chronology
