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252:, was published in 1931. In this novel Miriam has an affair with Hypo Wilson that leads to a pregnancy and miscarriage, based on Richardson's affair with H. G. Wells around 1907. Sex is a dominant concern of this work. Miriam's women friend Amabel writes “I love you” with a piece of soap on Miriam's mirror, which leaves Miriam wondering if she can reciprocate. Amabel was based on Veronica Leslie-Jones, an activist and suffragette who married Benjamin Grad. 100:
commented, "Miss Richardson is not without talent but it is the talent of neurasthenia." And that the "only living thing in the book" is "the morbid and self-conscious mind ." In this novel Miriam works as a governess to the two children of the Corrie family during 1895. Mr. Corrie is a successful
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in central London at 21, and works as a receptionist at a dental surgery. These are events again parallel Dorothy Richardson's life. Olive Heseltine described the novel to be "simply life. Shapeless, trivial, pointless, boring, beautiful, curious, profound. And above all, absorbing." On the other
286:, published with a new Complete Edition, in 1967. There is brief description of Miriam meeting a Mr Noble, which is based on Dorothy Richardson's meeting in 1915 with Alan Odle, the artist son of a bank manager, who became her husband in 1917. They both lived in the same lodging house in 61:
Miriam, like Richardson, "is the third of four daughters parents had longed for a boy and had treated her as if she fulfilled that expectation". This upbringing is reflected in Miriam's "strong ambivalence toward her role as a woman". Dorothy Richardson had the same ambivalence.
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admits that Richardson has "talent," her heroine "is not particularly interesting" and this novel would be "probably ... almost unintelligible" to those who have not a "close acquaintance" her previous novels in the sequence. Much of the action in this chapter of
211:" amongst other things. Shatov is based on Benjamin Grad, the son of a Jewish lawyer in Russia, who lived in 1896 in the same lodging as Richardson on Endesleigh Street, Bloomsbury, London. Grad asked Richardson to marry him but she turned him down. 191:, however, "Richardson first shows philosophical ideas and inquiry taking persistent and organized shape in Miriam’s maturing thought", when she "attends a course of introductory lectures by the British Idealist philosopher 244:, based on Richardson's 1904 holiday there. It "focuses on the experience and influence of travel and new surroundings, celebrating a state of intense wonder—'the strange happiness of being abroad.'" The tenth part of 217:
was published in 1923, and in it Miriam's friendship continues with Michael Shatov, though she has rejected marriage. Miriam also has a long holiday at the seaside home of Hypo and Alma Wilson, who are based on
492: 32:, from the first half of the 20th century. It comprises 13 volumes, including a final posthumous volume. It is now considered a significant work of 105:
ends with the suicide of Miriam's mother. Events in this novel again parallel Dorothy Richardson's own life: her mother committed suicide in 1895.
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was read as a work of fiction and "its critics did not suspect that its content was a reshaping of DMR's own experience", nor that it was a
84:. Both author and character have to do this because of their father's financial problems. The following year, 1916, Richardson published 311: 757: 271:
published during Dorothy Richardson's life. The edition was publicized as a complete work in twelve parts by the publisher.
230:. Miriam moves into a flat, which she shares with a Miss Holland. The title reflects that this is not a successful venture. 88:, where Miriam "works as resident governess in a school frequented by the daughters of the North London middle class". 728: 694: 660: 465: 366: 278:, three chapters from "A Work in Progress", and when she died left an incomplete manuscript of the 13th "chapter" of 179:"an experience rather than a book." Richardson's interest in philosophical theories and ideas is central to 76:(1915), is set in 1893. At 17 years old Miriam Henderson, as Richardson herself did, teaches English at a 123:
found it disturbing that "Miss Richardson is not concerned with the satisfaction of the average reader".
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Deborah Longworth, "Subject, Object and the Nature of Reality: Metaphysics in Dorothy Richardson's
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was published in 1938 as part of a four volume Collected Edition, It was the last volume of
112:, appeared in 1919. In it Miriam starts on a more independent life when she takes a room in 777: 772: 767: 303: 192: 487:
Rebecca Bowler, "Dorothy M Richardson deserves the recognition she is finally receiving",
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Theorists of the Modernist Novel: James Joyce, Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf
237: 171: 81: 77: 183:, though "metaphysical questions about the nature of being and of reality pervade 223: 196: 141: 54: 323: 195:", with her fellow lodger Michael Shatov, She discusses with him "the ideas of 25: 618:
Mhairi Pooler, "'The Strange Happiness of Being Abroad': Dorothy Richardson's
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Experimenting on the Borders of Modernism: Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage
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Experimenting on the Borders of Modernism: Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage
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novel sequence, is based on the author's own life between 1891 and 1915.
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was published in 1928 and depicts a fortnight spent by Miriam in the
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Janik, Vicki K.; Janik, Del Ivan; Nelson, Emmanuel Sampath (2002).
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Herman, David; Jahn, Manfred; Ryan, Marie-Laure (2010-06-10).
639:. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1997, p. 15. 36:. Richardson's own term for the volumes was "chapters". 524:"Life. The Tunnel." Everyman , 22 Mar. 1919: 562, 565. 403:
The Letters of John Cowper Powys and Dorothy Richardson
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Oxford University Press, 1992, 162 388:Doris B Wallace, Howard E Gruber //. 13: 609:, London: Routledge, 2014. p. 454. 355:RabatĂ©, Jean-Michel (2013-02-26). 154:takes place in Miriam's lodgings. 14: 789: 274:In 1946 Richardson published, in 16:Book series by Dorothy Richardson 306:in narrative. From early in the 676: 649:Parsons, Deborah (2014-08-07). 629: 612: 599: 580: 567: 554: 540: 527: 518: 509: 496: 358:A Handbook of Modernism Studies 758:Book series introduced in 1915 481: 447: 434: 421: 408: 395: 382: 336: 310:sequence, she applied it in a 1: 537:, 15 Mar. 1919, pp. 330-331. 401:Jane Fouli, "Introduction". 7: 577:, 29 (8 Feb. 1922): 313-314 560:"Latest Works of Fiction." 39: 10: 794: 689:. Routledge. p. 317. 562:New York Times Book Review 515:124, 24 Nov. 1917, p. 422. 147:New York Times Book Review 65: 717:Bluemel, Kristin (1997). 655:. 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Index

novel sequence
Dorothy Richardson
literary modernism
roman Ă  clef
Pointed Roofs
finishing school
Hanover, Germany
Saturday Review
Bloomsbury
The Spectator
Little Review
James Joyce
Ulysses
Una Hunt
The New Republic
John Ellis McTaggart
Herbert Spencer
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Benedict de Spinoza
Friedrich Nietzsche
H. G. Wells
Amy
Bernese Oberland
Swiss Alps
St John's Wood, London
May Sinclair
free indirect speech
stream of consciousness
Henry James
James Joyce

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