The pilgrimage of Dorothy Richardson

Abstract

Dorothy Richardson's 13-volume opus of autobigraphical fiction, Pilgrimage, follows the entire arc of an independent woman's life and is considered a classic of modernist literature. Joanne Winning argues here, however, that the novels have remained misunderstood, and she demonstrates that Pilgrimage contains a carefully constructed, though concealed, subtext of desire and sexuality. This analysis, she suggests, is the first step toward recognizing and defining a literary movement of lesbian modernism, as well as toward a deeper understanding of how modernist writers helped shape modernist literature as a whole.

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