Honeycomb

About the book

"Honeycomb: Pilgrimage, Volume 3" by Dorothy M. Richardson is a novel published in 1917. The third volume of Richardson's groundbreaking modernist sequence follows Miriam Henderson as she works as a governess for the prosperous Corrie family in 1895. This installment traces Miriam's continued journey toward independence while navigating her ambivalent feelings about womanhood. The novel culminates in a devastating personal tragedy—her mother's suicide—that mirrors events from Richardson's own life and marks a turning point in Miriam's development.