Hunter Dukes at The Public Domain Review.
"Scholars believe 'stream of consciousness' was first used as a description of literary style by the British writer May Sinclair, during a review of Dorothy Richardson’s novels for The Egoist in 1918. ...
"... Although James Wood and others have argued that there is nothing uniquely modernist about representing 'the movement of the mind' upon the page, the psychological theory of mind that informs May’s review can be traced to a chapter in William James’ The Principles of Psychology (1890)."
See William James, "On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings", "The Energies of Men", "Great Men and Their Environment", in Gateway to the Great Books (10 Vol., 1963) volume 7; The Principles of Psychology, in Great Books of the Western World (first edition, 52 Vol., 1952) volume 53, (second edition, 60 Vol., 1990) volume 55.
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