'The Tysons' by May Sinclair is a tale of love, sex, and marriage in fin de siècle England. The caddish Nevill Tyson and his beautiful but frivolous wife Molly are the center of this witty and insightful novel. Sinclair dissects the characters of the provincial village Drayton Parva with a mixture of Victorian prudishness and modern free-thinking. The step-by-step fragmentation of the Tyson marriage is a study in human nature and the passions that drive us. Told mostly from the perspectives of masculine characters, the novel illuminates the victimization of women in a male-dominated society, where female intellect was denigrated in favor of mere physical beauty.