Interim
The fifth volume of Richardson’s long novel sequence Pilgrimage keeps Miriam Henderson in the boarding houses and streets of turn-of-the-century London, where she rents a room, works at a dental practice, and drifts between lodgers, friends, and the city’s crowded evenings. Little happens in the way of plot. Instead Richardson records the flicker of Miriam’s thoughts, moods, and impressions as they arrive, one of the earliest sustained uses of what came to be called stream of consciousness. Serialized in the Little Review at the same time as parts of Joyce’s Ulysses, the book treats an ordinary young woman’s inner life as worthy of the closest attention. This free PDF and EPUB edition offers a quiet, demanding entry into modernist fiction.
About the Author
Dorothy M. Richardson (1873-1957) was an English novelist and journalist regarded as a pioneer of stream-of-consciousness fiction. Her thirteen-volume sequence Pilgrimage, written over decades, followed a single woman’s inner life and influenced modernists such as Virginia Woolf, though it long remained underread.
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