Richardson, Dorothy (Miller) (1873-1957)

English novelist. Her sequence of 12 autobiographical novels was published together as Pilgrimage in 1938. It began with Pointed Roofs (1915), in which she was one of the first English novelists to use the ‘stream of consciousness’ technique.

Her contemporary, the English novelist and critic Virginia Woolf, recognized and shared this technique as part of the current effort to express women's perceptions in spite of the resistance of man-made language, and she credited Richardson with having invented ‘the sentence of the feminine gender’.