DR
's mother, Mary (Miller Taylor) Richardson
, was the daughter (one of twenty-two children) of a manufacturer at East Coker in Somerset. She married Charles Richardson
in 1866. Faced with his stern and...
Family and Intimate relationships
Dorothy Richardson
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...
Wealth and Poverty
Dorothy Richardson
After a series of financial reverses and the sudden death of his broker, DR
's father, Charles Richardson
, was declared bankrupt and a public auction of family property took place.
Fromm, Gloria G. Dorothy Richardson: A Biography. University of Illinois Press, 1977.