Pointed Roofs
Miriam Henderson is one of what novelist Dolf Wyllarde (in her great work, The Pathway of the Pioneer) termed "nous autres," i.e., young gentlewomen who must venture forth and earn their living after their fathers have been financially ruined. Also, she has read Villette; she thus applies for and is offered a job teaching conversational English at a girls' school, albeit in Germany rather than France. Pointed Roofs describes her year abroad, as she endeavors to make her way in the hotbed of seething female personalities that populate the school, overseen by her employer, the formidable Fraulein.
Richardson is adroit at conveying nuances of human perception through acutely observed physical and emotional detail. She was unfortunately labeled the inventor of stream of consciousness, and her later novels suffered when she started believing her own press; but her early ones (the first half-dozen are pre-1923) are free from stylistic excess, and are poignant -- or in this case -- pointed explorations of the workings of the human mind. (Introduction by Grant Hurlock)
Genre(s): General Fiction
Language: English
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Play 01 | 01 - Chapter 1 | Grant Hurlock |
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Play 02 | 02 - Chapter 2 | Grant Hurlock |
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Play 03 | 03 - Chapter 3, Part 1 | Grant Hurlock |
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Play 04 | 04 - Chapter 3, Part 2 | Grant Hurlock |
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Play 05 | 05 - Chapter 3, Part 3 | Grant Hurlock |
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Play 06 | 06 - Chapter 4 | Grant Hurlock |
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Play 07 | 07 - Chapter 5, Part 1 | Grant Hurlock |
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Play 08 | 08 - Chapter 5, Part 2 | Grant Hurlock |
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Play 09 | 09 - Chapter 6, Part 1 | Grant Hurlock |
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Play 10 | 10 - Chapter 6, Part 2 | Grant Hurlock |
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Play 11 | 11 - Chapter 6, Part 3 | Grant Hurlock |
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Play 12 | 12 - Chapter 7 | Grant Hurlock |
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Play 13 | 13 - Chapter 8, Part 1 | Grant Hurlock |
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Play 14 | 14 - Chapter 8, Part 2 | Grant Hurlock |
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Play 15 | 15 - Chapter 9 | Grant Hurlock |
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Play 16 | 16 - Chapter 10, Part 1 | Grant Hurlock |
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Play 17 | 17 - Chapter 10, Part 2 | Grant Hurlock |
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