Pointed Roofs

Pointed Roofs, published in 1915, is the first work (she called it a "chapter") in Dorothy Richardson's (1873–1957) series of 13 semi-autobiographical novels titled Pilgrimage,^[1] and the first complete stream of consciousness novel published in English. The novelist May Sinclair (1863–1946) first applied the term "stream of consciousness" in a review of Pointed Roofs (The Egoist April 1918).

Pointed Roofs

Am Kröpcke, the centre of the city of Hanover, in 1895. Richardson was there in 1891.
Author	Dorothy Richardson
Language	English
Genre	Novel
Publisher	Duckworth
Publication date	1915
Publication place	England
Followed by	Backwater

Miriam Henderson, the central character in Pilgrimage, is based on the author's own life between 1891 and 1915.^[2] In Pointed Roofs, seventeen-year-old Miriam Henderson has her first adventure as an adult teaching English at a finishing school in Hanover, Germany. Richardson herself had left home in 1891, at seventeen, to take up the post of student teacher at a school in Hanover, because of her father's financial problems.^[3]

Bibliography

• Pointed Roofs, London: Duckworth, 1915. Online text at Pointed Roofs: Pilgrimage, Volume 1