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<jats:p>During her lifetime Dorothy Richardson withheld all but the essential facts about herself—and gave even these grudgingly. In the years of the novelist's greatest vogue, between 1915 and 1930, when <jats:italic>Pilgrimage</jats:italic> was preferred by some of its readers to Proust and Joyce and was dismissed by others as unformed and insignificant, she held back the minimal biographical details which most novelists readily furnish. She listed neither place of birth nor date in <jats:italic>Who's Who.</jats:italic> She offered only what was known: the titles of her books and her publisher's address, and in a parenthesis her married name. It would seem that she wished to remain for her readers the author of <jats:italic>Pilgrimage</jats:italic>, the creator of Miriam, the historian of a woman's stream of consciousness.</jats:p>