Deadlock: Pilgrimage, Volume 6

"Deadlock: Pilgrimage, Volume 6" by Dorothy M. Richardson is a novel written in the early 20th century. The narrative centers on the character Miriam, who navigates her thoughts and interactions within the context of a boarding house, blending her internal contemplations with her external experiences and relationships. This work offers a deep exploration of identity, consciousness, and social dynamics through a stream-of-consciousness style. At the start of the novel, Miriam is depicted as a lively yet introspective character, filled with aspirations but encumbered by the mundanity of boarding house life. As she prepares to engage with her fellow boarders, her excitement is tinged with anxiety, reflecting her complex feelings about connection and isolation. The opening captures her emotional landscape as she interacts with Mrs. Bailey and Mr. Gunner, revealing the layers of her personality and her perceptions of the people around her. This portion sets the stage for exploring themes of belonging, identity, and the dissonance between one's internal and external worlds. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Dorothy Miller Richardson was a British author and journalist. Author of Pilgrimage, a sequence of 13 semi-autobiographical novels published between 1915 and 1967—though Richardson saw them as chapters of one work—she was one of the earliest modernist novelists to use stream of consciousness as a narrative technique. Richardson also emphasises in Pilgrimage the importance and distinct nature of female experiences. The title Pilgrimage alludes not only to "the journey of the artist ... to self-realisation but, more practically, to the discovery of a unique creative form and expression".