The Tysons

Writing under the name May Sinclair, Mary Amelia St. Clair (1862 to 1946) built a reputation in Britain with roughly two dozen novels, along with short stories and poems. Her work often took up the place of women and the institution of marriage, and she supported the suffrage cause, serving in the Woman Writers' Suffrage League. She began writing for a living in 1896, partly to provide for herself and her mother, who died in 1901.

Beyond fiction, Sinclair was a critic of modernist poetry and prose, and she is credited with popularising the literary use of the term stream of consciousness. She also produced philosophical nonfiction focused on German idealism. Her books sold well in the United States.

Among her best-known titles are The Divine Fire (1904), Superseded (1906), The Helpmate (1907), The Judgment of Eve (1907), The Belfry (1916), The Romantic (1920), Mr. Waddington of Wyck (1921), Anne Severn and the Fieldings (1922) and Life and Death of Harriett Frean (1922). This edition of The Tysons is one of her novels, though the source gives no details of its plot.