Backwater

About the book

"Backwater: Pilgrimage, Volume 2" by Dorothy M. Richardson is a novel published in 1916. In this second installment of Richardson's groundbreaking modernist sequence, protagonist Miriam Henderson works as a resident governess at a North London middle-class girls' school. Drawing directly from Richardson's own experiences, the novel continues Miriam's journey of self-discovery as she navigates the constraints of women's work and identity in late Victorian England. Part of a thirteen-volume exploration of one woman's consciousness and inner life.