Pointed Roofs

by Dorothy Miller Richardson

""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, 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). Miriam Henderson, the central character in Pilgrimage, is based on author's own life between 1891 and 19