Dorothy M. Richardson

Chris Baldick (Goldsmiths College, University of London)

Ed. by Chris Baldick, Goldsmiths College, University of London
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.08: English Writing and Culture of the early Twentieth Century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: Chris Baldick (Goldsmiths College, University of London), Peter Childs (Birmingham Newman University), Louise McDonald (Birmingham Newman University), Andrew Radford (University of Glasgow)

Dates

Born 17 May 1873
Died 17 Jun 1957
Activity 1902-1949

Places

Born in England
Active in England

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Novelist

Other

Journalist
Story-writer

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Dorothy M. Richardson was a notable innovator in English prose writing, a pioneer in the rendering of modern women’s experience, and the first novelist to have the term “stream of consciousness” applied to her literary technique. She wrote short stories and essays, but her life’s work was the lengthy autobiographical novel

Pilgrimage

, published in twelve instalments (1915-38) during her lifetime and posthumously as a still-incomplete 13-part work in 1967.

Pilgrimage

begins as a coming-of-age novel or

Bildungsroman

in which we follow the progress towards self-realisation of the protagonist, Miriam Henderson, from the age of seventeen onwards, in a sequence of encounters and dialogues that is deliberately not shaped into a formal plot. The events and persons in Miriam’s life…

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Citation: Baldick, Chris. "Dorothy M. Richardson". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 29 June 2020 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=3767, accessed 23 November 2024.]