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The Tree of Heaven

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Tree of Heaven
Authors and Contributors      By (author) M. Sinclair
SeriesBritish Library Women Writers
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:320
Dimensions(mm): Height 190,Width 130
Category/GenreClassic fiction (pre c 1945)
Historical fiction
ISBN/Barcode 9780712353076
ClassificationsDewey:823.912
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher British Library Publishing
Imprint British Library Publishing
Publication Date 19 March 2020
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

The Tree of Heaven follows the fortunes of the Harrison family as the children grow up in the shadow of the First World War and Dorothy's brothers go off, one by one, to the trenches, while she becomes involved with the suffrage movement, and later joins a version of the Women's Social and Political Union. Published at a time when women still did not have the right to vote, Sinclair - passionately in favour of women's enfranchisement - asks not if the vote should be won, but how. Her reflection on the war is of course limited by having not yet seen its end (The Tree of Heaven was published in 1917), yet Sinclair provides an excellent snapshot of the views and experiences of a family in the face of such great uncertainty.

Author Biography

May Sinclair (1863-1946) was a popular British writer and an active suffragist. Her publication record is prolific, including novels, philosophy, criticism, poetry and biography, as well as her 1912 pro-suffrage pamphlet, Feminism. She has been dubbed 'the readable modernist'.