Her family’s fortunes failing, seventeen-year-old Miriam Henderson leaves England to teach English at Fräulein Pfaff’s school for girls in Hanover. Among German and English pupils, Goethe readings, music and the strict watchfulness of the headmistress, she feels her way through homesickness, pride and first stirrings of independence, all rendered as they pass through her own restless consciousness.
The first volume of Richardson’s Pilgrimage (1915), a pioneering novel of inner experience that anticipates Woolf and Joyce. Download the free EPUB.