Pointed Roofs by Dorothy Richardson
Dorothy Miller Richardson (1873-1957) was the first writer to publish an English-language novel using what was to become known as the stream-of-consciousness technique. In London, she began moving among Avant-garde Socialist and artistic circles, including the Bloomsbury group. She started to publish translations and freelance journalism and eventually gave up her secretarial job. Throughout her career, she published large numbers of essays, poems, short stories, sketches and other pieces of journalism. However, her reputation as a writer rests firmly on the Pilgrimage sequence. The first of the Pilgrimage novels, Pointed Roofs (1915) was the first complete stream of consciousness novel in English, although Richardson herself disliked the term, preferring to call her way of writing interior monologues. The failure to recognise Richardson's role is partly due to the critical neglect of Richardson's writing during her lifetime. The fact that Pointed Roofs displayed the writer's admiration for German culture at a time when Britain and Germany were at war may also have contributed to the general lack of recognition of the book's radical importance.Dorothy Richardson was born in Prospect, Pennsylvania, in 1972, the daughter of a physician. She began her career as a journalist for the Pittsburgh Dispatch. She also wrote for the Social Democrat and a Chicago magazine called the New Times. She published The Long Day in 1905 while working for the New York Herald. Cindy Sondik Aron is Associate Professor of History at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Ladies and Gentlemen of Civil Service: Middle-Class Workers in Victorian America.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781438510675 |
| ISBN 10 | 1438510675 |
| Title | Pointed Roofs |
| Author | Dorothy Richardson |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Book Jungle |
| Year published | 2009-02-02 |
| Number of pages | 168 |
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