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Pointed Roofs
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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).
![]() Am Kröpcke, the centre of the city of Hanover, in 1895. Richardson was there in 1891. | |
Author | Dorothy Richardson |
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Language | English |
Genre | Novel |
Publisher | Duckworth |
Publication date | 1915 |
Publication place | England |
Followed by | Backwater |
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]