Dorothy Richardson was born May 17, 1873 in England and died June 17, 1957.
Her book, Pilgrimage, is a sequence of 13 novels in which she uses stream of consciousness, a narrative writing technique, and writes about the importance of female experiences. The stream of consciousness technique uses interior monologue in writing.
Edgar Allan Poe’s story, “The Tell-Tale Heart” foreshadowed the stream of consciousness. The technique influenced James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Marcel Proust, T. S. Elliot among others.
Richardson met H. G Wells in the early 1900’s, had an affair with him, and became pregnant with his child. She wanted to raise the child herself but she miscarried. Some Richardson quotes:
“The question was not how to get a job, but how to live by such jobs as I could get.”
“Coercion. The unpardonable crime.”
“If there was a trick, there must be a trickster.
H. G. Wells quotes:
“If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.”
