Pointed Roofs

by Dorothy Richardson

Overview

Dorothy Richardson was a 20th century British writer who often worked in "stream of consciousness". After she finished school she worked as a teacher, writer and held some clerical positions Her major work was called Pilgrimage. It was a series of books or as she preferred to call them chapters published under separate titles. This included: Pointed Roofs, 1915; Backwater, 1916; Honeycomb, 1917; The Tunnel, 1919; Interim, 1919; Deadlock, 1921; Revolving Lights, 1923; The Trap, 1925; Oberland, 1927; Dawn's Left Hand, 1931; Clear Horizon, 1935; the last part, Dimple Hill, appeared under the collective title, four volumes, 1938). The heroine in Pilgrimage is Miriam Henderson who was an attractive mystical woman. The novel's new look at portraying feminine consciousness gives Richardson's work significant status in the 20th century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781605979908
Publisher:	Book Jungle
Publication date:	07/28/2008
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	168
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.36(d)

About the Author

Stephen Ross is Professor of English at the University of Victoria.

Tara Thomson is a Literature Tutor and Research Assistant in the School of Literature, Languages, and Cultures at the University of Edinburgh.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction by Stephen Ross
Dorothy Richardson: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text

Pointed Roofs

Appendix A: Intellectual Contexts

1. From William James, “Stream of Consciousness” (1890)
2. From Henri Bergson, “Duration” (1907)

Appendix B: Literary Debates

1. From John Middleton Murry, “The Break-Up of the Novel,” Yale Review (October 1922)
2. From Hugh Walpole, “Realism and the New English Novel,” Vanity Fair (March 1923)
3. From May Sinclair, “The Novels of Dorothy Richardson,” The Little Review (April 1918)
4. Dorothy Richardson, “Novels,” Life and Letters (March 1948)

Appendix C: Letters

1. To P. Beaumont Wadsworth (30 April 1923)
2. To Bryher [Annie Winnifred Ellerman] (late 1924)
3. To Bryher (December 1927)
4. To Sylvia Beach (December 1934)
5. To Lita Hornick (1948)

Appendix D: Introductions

1. J.D. Beresford, Introduction, Pointed Roofs (1915)
2. Dorothy Richardson, Foreword, Pilgrimage (1938)

Appendix E: Interview

• From Vincent Brome, “A Last Meeting with Dorothy Richardson,” The London Magazine (June 1959)

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Editorial Reviews

At last! An accessible, affordable, expertly edited and annotated version of Pointed Roofs. Stephen Ross and Tara Thomson guide readers through the most beloved volume of Pilgrimage, which takes us from the girlish intimacies of heroine Miriam Henderson’s late Victorian home, through her experience of familial bankruptcy and disgrace, to her self-imposed exile and employment as an English teacher among Germany’s pointed roofs. Thanks to Broadview Press, all students of modernism can now discover England’s answer to James Joyce: Richardson’s first chapter-volume in her ‘Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman.’” — Kristin Bluemel, Monmouth University

“This Broadview edition of Dorothy Richardson’s Pointed Roofs is something of a landmark in contemporary modernist studies. It offers an attentively edited text, with the explanatory notes that one would expect of a Broadview Edition, opening up to students an understanding of Richardson’s writing without taking away from its seductive ambiguity. The appendix material is extremely well judged, and is particularly successful in demonstrating what an important figure Richardson was, and from just what heights her reputation had fallen. Now a new generation of Richardson readers will have access to a readable, affordable, and well-contextualized edition of this first chapter-volume of Pilgrimage. I have no doubt that this edition will inspire many of its readers to seek out more of this extraordinary modernist innovator’s work.” — Bryony Randall, University of Glasgow

From the Publisher

This Broadview edition of Dorothy Richardson’s Pointed Roofs is something of a landmark in contemporary modernist studies. It offers an attentively edited text, with the explanatory notes that one would expect of a Broadview Edition, opening up to students an understanding of Richardson’s writing without taking away from its seductive ambiguity. The appendix material is extremely well judged, and is particularly successful in demonstrating what an important figure Richardson was, and from just what heights her reputation had fallen. Now a new generation of Richardson readers will have access to a readable, affordable, and well-contextualized edition of this first chapter-volume of Pilgrimage. I have no doubt that this edition will inspire many of its readers to seek out more of this extraordinary modernist innovator’s work.

Bryony Randall University of Glasgow

At last! An accessible, affordable, expertly edited and annotated version of Pointed Roofs. Stephen Ross and Tara Thomson guide readers through the most beloved volume of Pilgrimage, which takes us from the girlish intimacies of heroine Miriam Henderson's late Victorian home, through her experience of familial bankruptcy and disgrace, to her self-imposed exile and employment as an English teacher among Germany's pointed roofs. Thanks to Broadview Press, all students of modernism can now discover England's answer to James Joyce: Richardson's first chapter-volume in her ‘Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman.’

Kristin Bluemel Monmouth University