''Pointed Roofs'', published in 1915, is the first work (she called it a "chapter") in
Dorothy Richardson
Dorothy Miller Richardson (17 May 1873 – 17 June 1957) was a British author and journalist. Author of ''Pilgrimage'', a sequence of 13 semi-autobiographical novels published between 1915 and 1967—though Richardson saw them as chapters of o ...
's (1873–1957)
series of 13 semi-autobiographical novels titled
''Pilgrimage'',
and the first complete
stream of consciousness
In literary criticism, stream of consciousness is a narrative mode or method that attempts "to depict the multitudinous thoughts and feelings which pass through the mind" of a narrator. The term was coined by Daniel Oliver in 1840 in ''First L ...
novel published in English. The novelist
May Sinclair
May Sinclair was the pseudonym of Mary Amelia St. Clair (24 August 1863 – 14 November 1946), a popular British writer who wrote about two dozen novels, short stories and poetry. She was an active suffragist, and member of the Woman Writers' ...
(1863–1946) first applied the term "stream of consciousness" In a review of ''Pointed Roofs'' (''
The Egoist'' April 1918).
Miriam Henderson, the central character in ''Pilgrimage'', is based on the author's own life between 1891 and 1915. In ''Pointed Roofs'', seventeen years old Miriam Henderson has her first adventure as an adult teaching English at a finishing school in
Hanover, Germany
Hanover (; german: Hannover ; nds, Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony. Its 535,932 (2021) inhabitants make it the 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-largest city in Northern Germa ...
. Richardson herself had left home in 1891, at seventeen, to take up the post of student teacher at a school in Hanover, because of her father's financial problems.
[Rebecca Bowler, "Dorothy M Richardson deserves the recognition she is finally receiving", ''The Guardian'', 15 May 201]
Bibliography
* ''Pointed Roofs'', London: Duckworth, 1915. Online text a
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Modernist novels
1915 British novels
Feminist novels
Novels set in Germany
Novels about teachers
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