Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage and the society of the street

The present essay focuses specifically on Miriam's relationship to the physical streets of London; the pavements, roads and adjacent shopfronts and buildings. This focus is motivated by the fact that the street is one of the privileged sites in the novel (urban or otherwise). It is afforded a considerable amount of textual space, is a lived space of particular significance and value to Miriam throughout the novel, and her relationship to it is multifaceted and very unconventional for the period.