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Richardson, Dorothy Miller (1873-1957) Autograph Letter Signed, Cornwall, May 9, 1939.
Single sheet inscribed over one page to Robert J. Gibson in New York, thanking him for his kind letter, saying that she is continuing to work on her novel sequence, Pilgrimage; also noting that Pilgrimage's main character, Miriam Henderson, shows "unkindness & ignorance" towards "'men' & also 'Americans'"; and hoping that she [Miriam] "will reach clearer insight," as Richardson continues her tale, "helped thither through thick & thin by the knowledge that there are those for whom it has value," and mentioning the work of John Austen, suggesting that her correspondent read the book, The A.B.C. of Pen & Ink Rendering, which she characterizes as, "beyond praise," old folds, with original holograph envelope, 9 x 6 3/4 in. unfolded.
Pilgrimage is a thirteen-volume novel sequence with sections published separately beginning in 1915 and continuing after the author's death. In 1938, the twelfth part, Dimple Hill, was published as part of a four-volume collected edition, the last part to be published in the author's lifetime. In 1939, at the time this letter was written, she was presumably working on the thirteenth part, March Moonlight, three chapters of which were published as A Work in Progress in her Life and Letters in 1946. A complete posthumous edition including the last part in its entirety was published in 1967. Richardson was one of the earliest authors of the modernist novel to use stream of consciousness writing in her construction of the narrative.
