In this session we venture into the work of Dorothy Richardson, the novelist of whom Virginia Woolf wrote, 'She has invented a sentence we might call the psychological sentence of the feminine gender… proving that the novel is not hung upon a nail and festooned with glory, but, on the contrary, walks the high road, alive and alert, and brushes shoulders with real men and women'.

Reading Richardson’s records of Miriam Henderson’s experiences, we explore the concept of stream of consciousness writing techniques and their purpose in Richardson’s texts, autobiographical prose, and women writing the city.