Because of these combined approaches, recent critics have called DR
's work a cultural autobiography,
Richardson, Dorothy. “Chronology; Editorial Commentary”. Windows on Modernism: Selected Letters of Dorothy Richardson, edited by Gloria G. Fromm, University of Georgia Press, 1995, p. xxix - xxxiii; various pages.
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and a revelation of dimensions of the historical phenomenon of women's experience . . . a form of cultural...
Reception
Dorothy Richardson
DR
's work was also informed by other less-recognized sources, particularly Henry James
's The Ambassadors, 1903. After reading this, she called James's narrative approach the first completely satisfying way of writing a novel...
Literary Setting
Dorothy Richardson
Miriam confronts experience directly, and her developing consciousness drives the story. Thus, although the book is written as a third-person narrative, it is about the narrator, and achieves the effect of a first-person narrative. Critic...