Pilgrimage

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Richardson, Dorothy M. (Dorothy Miller), 1873-1957, author

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Miriam Henderson, the central character in the Pilgrimage novel sequence, is based on the author's own life between 1891 and 1915. Pilgrimage was read as a work of fiction and its content was a res...

Miriam Henderson, the central character in the Pilgrimage novel sequence, is based on the author's own life between 1891 and 1915. Pilgrimage was read as a work of fiction and its content was a reshaping of Richardson's own experience . Miriam, like Richardson, is the third of four daughters whose parents had longed for a boy and had treated her as if she fulfilled that expectation. This upbringing is reflected in Miriam's strong ambivalence toward her role as a woman. Though it does not proceed chronologically, Pilgrimage traces the development of Miriam Henderson over a period of 18 years, during which she works as a teacher and as a governess, becomes a dental assistant, joins a socialist organization, and studies the lives of Quakers.

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