Pointed Roofs

1915 novel by Dorothy Richardson

Pointed Roofs

Am Kröpcke, the centre of the city of Hanover, in 1895. Richardson was there in 1891.

Author| Dorothy Richardson
Language| English
Genre| Novel
Publisher| Duckworth

Publication date

| 1915
Publication place| England
Followed by| Backwater

Pointed Roofs, published in 1915, is the first work (she called it a "chapter") in Dorothy Richardson's (1873–1957) series of 13 semi-autobiographical novels titled Pilgrimage,[1] and the first complete stream of consciousness novel published in English. The novelist May Sinclair (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.[2] In Pointed Roofs, seventeen-year-old Miriam Henderson has her first adventure as an adult teaching English at a finishing school in Hanover, Germany. 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.[3]

## Bibliography

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* Pointed Roofs, London: Duckworth, 1915. Online text at Pointed Roofs: Pilgrimage, Volume 1

## References

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1. ^ Joanne Winning (2000). The Pilgrimage of Dorothy Richardson. Univ of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-0-299-17034-9.
2. ^ Goria G. Fromm, ed., Windows on Modernism: Selected Letters of Dorothy Richardson, ed. Athens, Georgia, U. of Georgia Press, 1995, xviii–xix.
3. ^ Rebecca Bowler (15 May 2015). "Dorothy M Richardson deserves the recognition she is finally receiving". The Guardian.

## External links

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* Pointed Roofs at Standard Ebooks
*   * Pointed Roofs at Project Gutenberg

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