Gloria G. Fromm

The collection Windows on Modernism: Selected Letters of Dorothy Richardson was published nearly four decades after the author's death. It was edited by longtime Richardson scholar Gloria Fromm .

Fromm judges that the book's first three chapters successfully render Miriam's thought processes and orchestrate different time periods and locations, but that the last seven chapters seem thin, hurried, incongruous, and more remote than anything...

An under-nurse employed to help her mother after DR was born had a habit of deliberately startling the infant; this left Dorothy, it was thought, with lifelong fears and reactions to sudden noises, as well...

Recognition of the significance and complexity of DR 's oeuvre has risen markedly since the late 1970s. This predominantly feminist shift has been inspired and facilitated by Gloria Fromm 's major biography, released in 1977...

DR 's father, Charles Richardson , was an only son with a single sister. According to biographer Gloria Fromm , he appeared to have two aims in life: to have a son and to be...

Although his ambitions effected significant domestic upheavals early in Dorothy's life, including the tragedy of her mother's suicide, she remained strongly influenced by his idea of a cultured, gentlemanly life, and his autocratic, condescending attitude...

According to biographer Gloria Fromm , DR felt that the move was undertaken for her mother's health, while her younger sister felt it was for financial reasons. Dorothy resented the move profoundly.

Her lack of money was eased by the low cost of Cornish living, and she was inspired by the striking scenery and peaceful atmosphere. Gloria Fromm notes that in Cornwall, her solitude was very nearly...

In June 1923, DR met and began a friendship with Bryher , who went on to provide her with various kinds of support for the rest of her life. Gloria Fromm describes Bryher as a...

A number of her Saturday Review pieces were shaped by her experiences in Switzerland and Sussex, including A Sussex Auction, the first to appear. DR scholar Gloria Fromm suggests that these...

Because of these combined approaches, recent critics have called DR 's work a cultural autobiography, and a revelation of dimensions of the historical phenomenon of women's experience . . . a form of cultural...

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...

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...

Gloria Fromm links The Tunnel with Dante 's Divine Comedy, because it is divided into thirty-three chapters (the number of Dante's cantos), and contains similar repeated phrases, such as the inner circle,the outer...

Gloria Fromm calls the text the culminating chapter in the London adventures of its heroine. Miriam is now a woman in her early thirties, ready to disentangle herself from various relationships and to leave...