Although recognized in literary circles as the first writer to use the stream-of-consciousness technique in her writing, Dorothy Richardson is not as widely recognized as the founder of this style. His mannerisms and thought processes were affected for the rest of his life by his upbringing in a poor family. Brought into the world in 1873, Richardson was destined for stereotypical female professions: tutor-governess in Hanover and London, secretary and assistant. His mother's suicide in 1895 completely shattered the family, only adding to the need for Richardson to find a way to support herself. Fortunately, Richardson became involved with socialists in the area, as well as the people of Bloomsbury, and soon after gave up her job as a secretary. She became involved in translations and freelance journalism to introduce herself to the bohemian lifestyle; from there she met and married Alan Odel, a much younger man who was something of a bohemian cult figure at the time, with his waist-length hair which he wore wrapped around his head. Throughout his life, Richardson published a large number of essays, short stories, poems as well as sketches. The most famous is his Pilgrimage series, a thirteen-novel project that was the first in literature to employ what Richardson preferred to call "inner monologues." Pointed Roofs was the first novel in the series and, therefore, the first to introduce such a writing style. She presented the story with a sense of immediacy rather than a retrospective perspective. Instead of telling stories in the sense that the realists did, Richardson allowed the present moment to monopolize literature so that the present could prevail over the past. This is...... middle of paper ......Hanscombe, Gillian E. The Art of Living: Dorothy Richardson and the Development of Feminist Consciousness. Athens: Ohio University P, 1983. Staley, Thomas F. Dorothy Richardson. Boston: Twayne, 1976. Winner, Joanne. The Pilgrimage of Dorothy Richardson. Wisconsin Press. March 21, 2004. Related links: Women of the Left Bank http://home.sprynet.com/~ditallop/homepage.htmModernism: American Salonshttp://www.cwru.edu/artsci/engl/VSALM/mod/International Review of Modernismhttp://www.modernism.wsu.edu/Eisenstein, Joyce and the Gender Politics of English Literary Modernismhttp://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/FINE/juhde/tiess931.htm“The role played by women: » Gender of Modernism at the Armory Showhttp://xroads.virginia.edu/~MUSEUM/Armory/gender.html