author
Dorothy Richardson
b. 1882
A quiet but radical force in modern fiction, she helped shape stream-of-consciousness writing through the long, intimate novel sequence Pilgrimage. Her work follows the inner life of a woman with unusual patience, clarity, and emotional precision.
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The Long Day: The Story of a New York Working Girl, as Told by Herself
by Dorothy Richardson
About the author
Born Dorothy Miller Richardson in Abingdon, England, in 1873, she became a British novelist and journalist whose writing stood at the front of literary modernism. Although your note says 1882, the reliable sources I found give her birth year as 1873. Early family hardship pushed her into work as a teacher and governess, and those experiences later fed the closely observed, personal texture of her fiction.
She is best known for Pilgrimage, a sequence of 13 semi-autobiographical novels published over many years. The books follow Miriam Henderson and are widely recognized as an early and important use of stream-of-consciousness narrative, focusing less on plot than on thought, memory, feeling, and daily perception.
Richardson has sometimes been overshadowed by better-known modernists, but critics and reference works continue to describe her as a pioneer. Her fiction remains striking for its calm intensity and for the way it makes ordinary life feel complex, searching, and deeply alive.