Sinclair
Sinclair names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Sinclair UPTON (BEALL)
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
UPTON (BEALL), an American novelist and socialist, born in Baltimore, in 1878. After After graduating from the College of the City of New York in 1897, he immediately took up literature as a vocation, but at first without much success. In 1903 he published "The Journal of Arthur Stirling," supposed to be the diary of a young poet who had committed suicide. Much editorial indignation was vented on Sinclair when it was discovered that he had written the work and was still alive, only serving to bring him into public notice. In 1906 he pub lished the first book which made him famous, "The Jungle," which, in fiction form, gave such a picture of labor conditions in the packing house industry in Chicago that the entire American public was horrified. President Roosevelt immediately ordered an investigation, whose report indicated that Sinclair had, on the whole, stated the actual facts. As a result strin stringent legislation was passed, known as the Pure Food Acts Since then Sinclair has written a number of novels, none of which has attracted much attention. Among these are "The Industrial Republic" (1907); and "The Brass Check" (1920); the latter an alleged expose of American journalism.
Sinclair MAY, an English novelist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
MAY, an English novelist, born at Rock Ferry, Cheshire, England. She was educated at the Ladies' College, Cheltenham, and at an early age began the writing of essays, short stories, and novels. Her first notable success was "The Divine Fire," published in 1904. This attracted wide attention and won her immediate reputation. This was followed by "The Helpmate" (1907); "The Judgment of Eve" (1908); "The Combined Maze" (1913); "The Three Sisters" UPTON SINCLAIR (1914); "The Belfry" (1916); "The Tree of Heaven" (1918). During the World War she served as a nurse in Belgium. She was considered one of the foremost of modern English novelists.
Sinclair originally ST
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
originally ST. CLAIR, a Scotch family of Norman origin, founded by William de Santo Claro, who settled in Scotland and received from David I. the grant of the barony of Roslin. The earldoms of Orkney, of Caithness, and of Rosslyn have been especially connected with this family, which at one time was one of the most powerful in the kingdom.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's dismissed Upton Sinclair in 1921 with the line that since "The Jungle" he had written novels of which "none has attracted much attention" — written just before his most productive decades. He published "Oil!" in 1927, came close to winning the California governorship in 1934 on his EPIC (End Poverty in California) platform, won the 1943 Pulitzer Prize for fiction with "Dragon's Teeth", and died in 1968 having published around a hundred books; "Oil!" became the film "There Will Be Blood" in 2007. May Sinclair, called here "one of the foremost of modern English novelists", faded from view after her death in 1946 but has been recovered by later scholars, partly because it was she who applied the phrase "stream of consciousness" to fiction in a 1918 review of Dorothy Richardson. The Sinclair/St Clair family entry stands as written, Rosslyn Chapel now being better known as a tourist site than as a seat of power.
Written for this edition, 2026.