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Dorothy Richardson · 1915

A modernist novel following Miriam Henderson, a young woman preparing to leave her family home to work as a governess in Germany, exploring her inner thoughts and emotional turmoil on the eve of departure. Written in Richardson's distinctive stream-of-consciousness style.

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What this book knows

Consciousness itself is the protagonist: a young woman's perception streams through a foreign world, forming selfhood from sensation and sound.

Sex: Present
Work: Present
Learning: Primary
Religion: Present

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self-and-identity

Miriam left the gaslit hall and went slowly upstairs... It would be quiet in her room. She could sit by the fire and be quiet and think things over.
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Away out here, the sense of imminent catastrophe that had shadowed all her life so far, had disappeared.
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It did not come from the candlelit corner where the piano was.... It came from everywhere. It carried her out of the house, out of the world.
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Grave and happy she sat with unseeing eyes, listening, for the first time. At the end of the page she was sitting with her eyes full of tears.
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belonging

She was beginning to belong to the house—she did not want to write letters—but just to sit.
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Such close quarters with a French girl was bewildering enough—had she been a Roman Catholic, Miriam felt she could not have endured her proximity.
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