The Tree of Heaven

The popular British writer and suffragist's novel of the shifting fortunes of the Harrison family in the shadow of the First World War.

About the author

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."

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: M. Sinclair, May Sinclair, Sinclair M.
• Publisher: British Library
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9780712353076
• ISBN: 978-0-7123-5307-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 190 mm x 25 mm
• Series: British Library Women Writers
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Historical / General, Historical fiction, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Classic fiction: general and literary