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Category: Dorothy Richardson

Edith Morley’s Before and After. Reminiscences of a Working Life

This is a memoir by the first female professor in the UK, Edith Morley, Professor of English Language at the University of Reading. It’s an essential read for anyone exploring the history of women’s higher education in Britain, and for those keen on reliving the struggles of women to make headway in a profession that … Continue reading Edith Morley’s Before and After. Reminiscences of a Working Life →

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Kate 19thC, 20thC, Dorothy Richardson, Edith Morley, Edwardian, fashion history, feminism, history, literary history, memoirs / diaries, middlebrow studies, oneupmanship, political / social commentary, the life of the times, the world of work, wartime 1 Comment October 2, 2017September 30, 2017

The end of Pilgrimage: Dorothy Richardson’s Dimple Hill, and March Moonlight

This is the end of Pilgrimage, and for the first time I understand why Richardson named this sequence after a religious journey of self-examination and hope. I don’t understand the worship part, but I completely understand the point of her writing this journey, begun in wartime to say that all experience matters, and the future is something … Continue reading The end of Pilgrimage: Dorothy Richardson’s Dimple Hill, and March Moonlight →

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Dorothy Richardson’s Dawn’s Left Hand, and Clear Horizon

With nine volumes of Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage down, and four to go, Dawn’s Left Hand is the one in which Miriam has sex with H G Wells. It’s an extraordinary episode, and if you’ve read H G Wells’ Ann Veronica, you’ll be fuming, because the setting is exactly the same as the attempted rape of … Continue reading Dorothy Richardson’s Dawn’s Left Hand, and Clear Horizon →

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Dorothy Richardson’s The Trap, and Oberland

After the long trudge through the last four novels in Pilgrimage, Dorothy Richardson's The Trap, and Oberland, are a surprising contrast. They’re short, they’re full of recognisable and traceable incident, they have drama rather than meandering conversations, and Miriam learns to sledge. The main reason for this difference in tone and mood is that The Trap … Continue reading Dorothy Richardson’s The Trap, and Oberland →

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Dorothy Richardson’s Deadlock, and Revolving Lights

Continuing this series of posts about successive volumes in Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage, here are volumes six and seven, Deadlock, and Revolving Lights. We’re at the halfway mark, and I have to say that this is now a trudge for me. It’s grim duty and a distant curiosity about what will happen next that keeps me … Continue reading Dorothy Richardson’s Deadlock, and Revolving Lights →

Kate 20thC, bildungsroman, Dorothy Richardson, H G Wells, literary history, passion and secrets, political / social commentary, the life of the times, the world of work Leave a comment May 17, 2016May 20, 2016

Reading Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage

This conversation began when Brad Bigelow of The Neglected Books page noticed that I'd reviewed Pointed Roofs, the first volume of Pilgrimage. We began to chat about our respective experiences of reading the books, since he was only five volumes ahead of me, as I posted about Backwater and Honeycomb, and The Tunnel and Interim. … Continue reading Reading Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage →

Kate 20thC, Arnold Bennett, bildungsroman, Dorothy Richardson, family saga, H G Wells, Henry James, literary history, Mary Borden, passion and secrets, political / social commentary, Rebecca West, Stella Benson, Sylvia Townsend Warner, the life of the times, the world of work, Virginia Woolf 1 Comment May 16, 2016May 20, 2016

Beginning a festival of Dorothy Richardson: The Tunnel, and Interim

Today begins a total splurge of reviews of the remaining novels in Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage. I've already written about the first volume, Pointed Roofs, and Backwater and Honeycomb. Today I'm tackling The Tunnel and Interim, and next week's posts begin with a long conversation with Brad Bigelow of The Neglected Books Page about how we both read Pilgrimage (more or less … Continue reading Beginning a festival of Dorothy Richardson: The Tunnel, and Interim →

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Dorothy M Richardson’s Backwater, and Honeycomb

These are the second and third novels in Dorothy M Richardson’s Pilgrimage sequence, and, like the first - Pointed Roofs (1915) - they are as realist as one could hope for in a modernist novel. The narrative is straightforward, albeit entirely through the perspective of the narrative voice, Miriam Henderson, a girl from Barnes now marooned in a … Continue reading Dorothy M Richardson’s Backwater, and Honeycomb →

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Dorothy Richardson’s Pointed Roofs

Pointed Roofs is the first novel in Dorothy Richardson’s 13-volume sequence Pilgrimage, published between 1915 and (posthumously) 1967. I knew there were 13 novels, but when I was bought the 1938 Cresset Press edition in Brussels’ loveliest antiquarian bookshop, Het Ivoren Aapje, two months ago, I realised that my 4-volume edition only includes the first … Continue reading Dorothy Richardson’s Pointed Roofs →

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