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| | May Sinclair and the First World War by Suzanna Raitt - Ideas, Vol. 6, No. 2, 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) |
 | | Sinclair may have fantasized about the pleasures of battle, but there was clearly something about her behavior that suggested she was, understandably enough, less than enthused at the prospect of participating in it in the flesh. |
 | | Sinclair's glorification of the spiritual uplift of war was typical of much of the popular fiction of the era (Cicely Hamilton in William-An Englishman [1919], for example, skates over the violent episodes of her story in order to concentrate on her protagonists' determination to win what she saw as a "just" war). |
 | | Sinclair's interest in him as a character reveals her concern for those who are left out of the "herd," as Trotter called it: women and men who are disabled in some way—age, physique, psychic make-up. |
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