Interim by Richardson, Signed (1 results)

First edition, signed by the author, of the the fifth instalment in Richardson's semi-autobiographical Pilgrimage series, the first literary work to which the phrase "stream of consciousness" was applied. The phrase "stream of consciousness" was previously only used in psychological contexts. The writer and suffragist May Sinclair, in a review of the first three Pilgrimage books, appropriated it in her praise of the impressionistic style: "In identifying herself with this life, which is Miriam's stream of consciousness, Miss Richardson produces her effect of being the first, of getting closer to reality than any of our novelists who are trying so desperately to get close" (p. 58). Many other contemporary authors also expressed their admiration of Pilgrimage, such as Virginia Woolf, who claimed that Richardson invented "the psychological sentence of the feminine gender" (p. 81). The series ran to 13 books in total. May Sinclair, "The Novels of Dorothy Richardson", The Egoist, vol. 5, no. 4, Apr. 1918; Virginia Woolf, "The Tunnel", The Times Literary Supplement, 13 Feb. 1919. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered and ruled in dark blue. With dust jacket, publisher's cancel price sticker to spine. Spine sunned, a little wear to head; jacket unclipped, spine and panels toned, small puncture to front panel, occasional short closed tears and shallow loss to edges, rear flap folds split at ends but holding: a very good copy in like jacket.