Dorothy Richardson
Dorothy Richardson
Dorothy Miller Richardsonwas a British author and journalist. Author of Pilgrimage, a sequence of 13 novels, she was one of the earliest modernist novelists to use stream of consciousness as a narrative technique. Richardson also emphasizes in Pilgrimage the importance and distinct nature of female experiences...
coercion action crime
Coercion. The unpardonable crime.
degradation world insult
No future life could heal the degradation of having been a woman. Religion in the world had nothing but insults for women.
party fall people
The joy of a party is the newness of people to each other, renewed strikingness of humanity. They love each other, to distraction. Really to distraction. Before they fall into conversation and separate. ... The strangeness, and the hopes aroused by strangeness, are illusions. Mirages arising wherever people gather expectantly together.
tricksters tricks ifs
If there was a trick, there must be a trickster.
sorrow certainty deep-down
Deep down in everyone was sorrow and certainty.