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This digital document, covering the life and work of Dorothy Miller Richardson, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thompson Gale. The length of the entry is 2312 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

• Place and date of birth and death (if deceased)
• Family members
• Education
• Professional associations and honors
• Employment
• Writings, including books and periodicals
• A description of the author's work
• References to further readings about the author

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Self Writing and Dorothy Richardson
The commentary on DR's fiction and film writing is an excellent blend of interdisciplinary study and research focusing on ethnography poetics and literary origins including: pilgrimage, epic, self writing, stream ofconsciousness, and travel. It is much more than dogmatic feminism. It isexcellent open minded research, without gender bias; also very readableeven for those who are not familiar with DR's catalogue. ... Read more

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Dorothy Richardson's thirteen-volume Pilgrimage is crowded with references from the last decade of the Victorian era and the first decade of the twentieth century. The interests of the protagonist Miriam Henderson are wide-ranging, from ecology to economics, from fiction to philosophy, from the mores of the family to the morals of the nation.

Pilgrimage's stream-of-consciousness narrative evokes these references and interests in elusive, complex ways. Even accomplished readers, following in the wake of the heroine's personal revelations, are hard-pressed to understand aspects of the more public scene from turn-of-the-century England.

Notes on 'Pilgrimage', by identifying historical persons, events, ideas, quotations as well as writings that underpin Richardson's story, illuminates these factual details and enriches our understanding of the narrative. A translation of all foreign words and phrases, a record of textual misprints and a thorough index add to the value of the book.

Notes on 'Pilgrimage' complements Thomson's A Reader's Guide to Dorothy Richardson's 'Pilgrimage' (1996), an account of the time scheme and a precise chronology of events, with characters placed in context through a descriptive directory. ... Read more

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Pilgrimage, Dorothy Richardson's thirteen-volume opus of autobiographical fiction, follows the entire arc of an independent woman's life in early twentieth-century Britain. It is one of the major works of the modernist period; indeed, it is considered by many a classic of modernist literature. Despite this status, Joanne Winning argues in The Pilgrimage of Dorothy Richardson that the novels have remained misunderstood in several important ways. Although Pilgrimage has been the subject of previous works of criticism, Winning's analysis is the first to fully explore the issues of lesbian identity in the novels.

Through an examination of primary materials, manuscript drafts, and Richardson's previously unstudied correspondence, Winning demonstrates that Pilgrimage contains a carefully constructed, though concealed, subtext of lesbian desire and sexuality. The Pilgrimage of Dorothy Richardson explores the ways in which Richardson used such cultural forms as sexology, psychoanalysis, and other lesbian and modernist literature of her time to create an intertextual dialogue about lesbian identity. Winning suggests that a sustained reading of lesbian sexuality in Pilgrimage is crucial to a more complete understanding of Richardson's long and sometimes difficult work.

In addition to providing readers with a thought-provoking analysis of Richardson's life-work, The Pilgrimage of Dorothy Richardson further notes that it is necessary to look at Pilgrimage in the context of other works by female modernist writers that record lesbian identity. Doing so, Winning suggests, is the first step toward recognizing and defining a literary movement that can be termed "lesbian modernism," as well as toward a deeper understanding of how lesbian modernist writers helped shape modernist literature as a whole.

"A major contribution to our understanding both of Richardson's thirteen-novel Pilgrimage series and of the important ways in which women writers helped to shape modernist literature in the twentieth century."-Cyrena Pondrom, University of Wisconsin-Madison ... Read more

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