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
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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
