2 AHRC funded PhD Studentships
The AHRC funded Dorothy Richardson Editions Project
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STUDENTSHIPS DETAILS
AHRC Studentship: ‘Dorothy Richardson’s Correspondence and Modernist Networks’
Supervisor: Dr Joanne Winning, j.winning@bbk.ac.uk
Dept of English & Humanities, Birkbeck, University of London
Nature and scope of doctoral thesis
Modernism can be characterised, uniquely amongst periods and fields of literary and artistic production, as a set of radical
aesthetic movements structured around a material network of practitioners, facilitators and patrons. While scholars such
as Bonnie Kime Scott, Virginia Smyers, and Gillian Hanscombe have demonstrated how such networks enabled women, as
previously marginalised cultural producers, to participate in literary production, the networks themselves have yet to be
fully theorised. This PhD project seeks to map and theorise the question of gender in relation to the modernist network,
conceptualising it as what the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu calls a 'restricted field of production,' in which key figures
function as agents of 'cultural consecration' bestowing 'symbolic value' upon the art objects created within the network.
Issues of gender and women's cultural production are of paramount importance here. Scott's work records lines of
connection for Richardson to other major figures in the field of modernism, such as James Joyce, Marcel Proust, Katherine
Mansfield. These lines represent relations of literary influence and conceptualisations of modernist experimental form.
However, Richardson's letters and fiction demonstrate that Richardson's lines of connection within the network were
manifold and diverse. To take just one example, an important line must be drawn between Richardson and Bryher
(Winifred Ellerman), who acts both as patron and editorial conduit for Richardson through the many years of her literary
career. This connection is evidenced both through correspondence and through literary representation. This PhD project
will aim to rethink such connections in relation to both an understanding of female patronage and editorial control in the
modernist field and through models of networks of female friendship and support.
The successful student will contribute directly to the wider project by learning from and taking part in processes of
transcription and editing, working on the interpretative content, and co-organizing the conference. The student will also be
supported by the project team, and the advisory board, through regular appraisal and feedback meetings, as part of a
mutual research network.
Birkbeck College, University of London is an excellent location for this doctoral project. Supervised by Dr Winning, who has
written extensively on Richardson, the student will be located in the Department of English & Humanities at Birkbeck. In
addition to substantial academic expertise in modernism, the Avant Garde and critical theory, the Department has a large,
established and diverse cohort of graduate students, who participate in a lively and active culture of research, discussion
and collaborative work. Amongst this cohort, there are a sizeable numbers of students working in the field of modernism.
Graduate students frequently set up their own reading groups as a way of making connections with other scholars and
creating spaces to discuss issues arising in research. Modernism is well represented amongst these groups, which include
groups devoted to the reading of Wyndham Lewis and Djuna Barnes. A major site for graduate student activity is the
Dandelion network, which encourages connections between research projects and hosts a regular electronic journal of
work by graduates from the several departments of the School of Arts at Birkbeck. The School hosts an annual day
conference, Work in Progress, organized by graduate students and consisting of 20-minute papers by graduates working
here. The Department takes its research students' development very seriously and runs two compulsory courses,
undertaken by students in their first year of study: 'Research Skills' and 'Teaching Arts in Higher Education.' Both courses
offer excellent introductions to the practical and theoretical issues involved in doctoral research and university teaching. In
addition, the College runs 'The Fundamentals of Teaching,' which all postgraduate teachers undertake. Supervision for fulltime graduate students takes place three times a term. To ensure full support of students and their projects, all students
are appointed a Second Supervisor who contributes to supervision, reading written materials and feedback at appropriate
points throughout the course of the research. The Department holds yearly Graduate Monitoring Interviews, at which
students have the opportunity to discuss their progress with a member of staff other than their supervisor(s). Full-time
graduate students make an application for upgrading from MPhil to PhD between 12-18 months into full-time research.
This application is overseen by the Upgrading Panel, who read the written materials and thesis outline and provides
written feedback. This Studentship will also benefit from the close proximity of the Institute for English Studies, based
within the School of Advanced Studies (Senate House, University of London). The IES hosts regular high-profile conferences
in Modernism, as well as the monthly London Modernism seminar and various reading groups in the field.
Start date and Time plan
The Studentship runs from the start of the academic year 2014-15, through to the end of the academic year 20/16/17.
First year: literature survey, including existing accounts of the field of modernism and modernist cultural production;
identifying relevant and productive strands of critical and cultural theory, with which to map and analyse the concept of
the 'network'; background research on Richardson's biography and bibliography and other key figures central to her
literary career and production.
Second year: focus and definition of the key research questions structuring the dissertation; collaboration with project
leaders on the process of editing the letters and fiction.
Third year: writing up the dissertation; submission; and as far as possible ongoing collaboration with the project team on
the editing project.
AHRC Studentship: ‘A Genetic Study of Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage)
Supervisor: Dr Deborah Longworth, d.l.longworth@bham.ac.uk
School of English, Drama and American & Canadian Studies, University of Birmingham
This doctoral project in genetic criticism will use Dorothy Richardson's letters, notes, manuscripts, typescripts, and editions
to ask key questions about the writing process that resulted in the various editions of her long novel Pilgrimage. The PhD
will go beyond the importance of the correspondence as just a biographical resource to use the letters as key documents
for understanding the historical and material circumstances of the process of composition of Richardson's fiction. A genetic
approach is particularly appropriate to Pilgrimage, which consists of thirteen volumes and was forty years in the making.
Not only was it unfinished at her death, but it was arguably inherently unfinishable, resisting narrative closure. With its
emphasis on the writing process, genetic criticism opens up for study Pilgrimage's unusually long and overlapping period of
composition and publication. The doctoral project will examine the writing process in relation to the changing
circumstances and historical events across which the text and its constituent books were produced, paying attention to the
shifts in form and structure that occur across the different Chapters and editions. A genetic approach also promises to
illuminate Richardson's practice of interweaving art and life in Pilgrimage, and the ways in which she drew upon but also
concealed her own autobiography for its composition. It will make an important contribution to the study of how we might
reconstruct Richardson's writing process.
Research questions:
1. In what ways do Richardson's correspondence and manuscripts document the formation of Pilgrimage as a text over the
course of its writing?
2. How does knowledge of Richardson's working practice, as evidenced in her letters, enhance understanding of Pilgrimage
and its constituent 'Chapters'?
3. What was the role of Richardson's literary networks, and of her publishers and agents, in the shaping of the composition
process of Pilgrimage?
The PhD will draw extensively upon the collection of previously unpublished letters held by the Richardson Editions project
and the student will be involved with the process of editing Richardon's letters and fiction as it happens. The doctoral
research will thus engage with and speak specifically to the wider scope of the Richardson editions project. The student will
have a key role in conceptualizing and organizing the conference on Gender and Textual Scholarship in Modernist Studies
planned for 2016. The student will work closely with the editorial team and will contribute to the interpretative framework
of the editions. This is likely to lead to new publications and the student will complete the programme in a strong position
to apply for an academic position.
The University of Birmingham is ideally suited to support the project. Supervised by Dr Longworth, who has published on
Richardson as a theorist of the modern novel, the student will be formally attached to the Department of English, where
there is extensive expertise both in literary modernism and textual editing, and to the Centre for Cultural Modernity. Both
of these offer a vibrant research and teaching community, with supporting seminars, frequent workshops and small
conferences, as well as online teaching and research initiatives. Supervisions are held every 2-4 weeks, with a supervision
record form completed at each supervision. There is an annual review, including confidential student assessment of
supervision, and annual Development Needs Analysis. At the end of the first year, and in subsequent years (by request or
referral) students submit work for assessment and attend a Progress Panel interview. All students have a mentor who
advises students as necessary in case of problems in supervision.
Start date and Time plan
The Studentship runs from the start of the academic year 2014-15, through to the end of the academic year 20/16/17.
First year: textual and editing studies training; background research on the genre of letter writing, and Richardson's
biography and bibliography; introduction to the issues involved in transcribing and editing Richardson's letters and fiction.
Second year: focus and definition of the key research questions structuring the dissertation; collaboration with project
leaders on the process of editing the letters and fiction.
Third year: writing up the dissertation; submission; and as far as possible ongoing collaboration with project team on the
editing project.
Informal Enquiries
Informal enquires are welcomed and should be directed, in confidence, to
Scott McCracken: s.mccracken@keele.ac.uk
Or contact the supervisors:
Birkbeck College: Joanne Winning: j.winning@bbk.ac.uk
University of Birmingham: Deborah Longworth: d.l.longworth@bham.ac.uk
Application Information
The studentship is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council for 3 years, as follows:
Fee Waiver (at UK/EU fee levels - £3,900
Stipend of £13,726 per annum; with London weighting £15,726
Applications should comprise of a PhD application form.
Birkbeck’s online application form can be found here:
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/study/2013/phd/programmes/RMPENGHU
Birmingham’s online application form can be found here:
http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/postgraduate/courses/research/english/english-literature.aspx#CourseDetailsTab
Applicants are invited to outline why they are interested in this position and how they
would like to develop their project. Applicants are strongly advised to consult the
‘Further information’ below when applying
Applicants will be assessed on the following criteria:
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Applicant’s research potential which may include degree results and previous academic achievements; academic
references and other professional qualifications; previous awards and prizes.
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Relevant experience, which is appropriate for the research proposal.
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Preparedness for doctoral study.
Your application can only be considered on the basis of the information we have received. It is your responsibility to ensure
that your application is submitted before the deadline and includes all of the following:
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The relevant application form.
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Names of two academic references.
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A proposal detailing how you personally would approach the PhD project, taking into account the ‘project aims
and objectives’ specified in the ‘Further information’ document (maximum four sides of A4. This should set out
your approach to the research questions to be addressed, a proposed methodology, a summary of current
literature etc).
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A sample of your previous academic work (maximum 5,000 words).
We recommend that you contact Scott McCracken or the relevant supervisor before submitting your application.
All successful applicants will still be required to meet the usual conditions for satisfactory progress in their doctoral studies.
failure to do so may result in the withdrawal of the studentship.
Deadline: 5pm, 21 February 2014
Interviews will take place in March.
For further details on the application process, please contact Scott McCracken
FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT THE RICHARDSON EDITIONS PROJECT
Research Issues and Key Objectives
1. Richardson’s correspondence constitutes a literary work in its own right, an important biographical record, and a vital
record of modernist literary networks in the first half of the twentieth century, yet there is no edition of her Collected
Letters. Objective 1 is to edit a three volume edition of her Collected Letters, contracted to Oxford University Press.
2. Dorothy Richardson was the first writer about whom the description ‘stream of consciousness’ was used in a literary
context. She was a unique figure in the history of the twentieth century novel and her work was a crucial part of the
emergence of literary modernism, yet there are no scholarly editions of her fiction. Objective 2 is to edit a seven volume
edition of her fiction, contracted to Oxford University Press.
3. Despite the importance of women’s writing to the emergence of modernist literature, there are very few scholarly
editions of work by women writers and very little funding has been allocated to redress this imbalance. The editions will
make a significant contribution to the scholarship on women and modernism.
Research Questions
1. How important were epistolary networks to the emergence of modernist cultural formations? How important were
those who played facilitating roles in these networks: e.g. patrons, agents, publishers, and translators. How did such
networks operate to support women involved in modernist literary production?
2. What do Richardson’s correspondence, notes, manuscripts, typescripts, editions and their paratexts and epitexts tell us
about the writing process through which the various editions of Pilgrimage were produced? How might genetic methods of
criticism allow us to analyse and reconstruct Richardson’s writing process from these documents?
Research Context and Background
Dorothy Richardson was one of a select group of writers who changed the rules of prose fiction. With James Joyce in
Ireland, Marcel Proust in France, William Faulkner in the United States and Virginia Woolf in England, Richardson invented
a new form of writing. She was at the forefront of a revolution in literature. Editions of Richardson’s correspondence and
fiction will re-establish her place amongst her contemporaries and fill a significant gap in literary history, ensuring that
women’s contribution to the emergence of literary modernism is properly acknowledged. The project will be carried out by
a team of leading Richardson scholars and represents an important opportunity to build on recent developments in textual
scholarship and to make new advances. Currently most of Richardson’s letters (over two thirds) are only available in over
thirty different archives and her fiction is hard to access. Scholars do not have a critical edition of her collected
correspondence as for Proust (Philip Kolb ed. 1970-1993), Joyce (Ellmann ed. 1957-1966), or Woolf (Nicolson ed. 19751988) nor are there scholarly editions of her fiction as there are for Proust and Joyce. In part this is explained by the initial
neglect of women writers in modernist studies. However, with the Cambridge scholarly edition of Virginia Woolf now
nearly complete and editions of Jean Rhys and Djuna Barnes being planned, the scholarly editions of Richardson’s
correspondence and fiction are long overdue and timely.
The importance of Dorothy Richardson’s work in the emergence of literary modernism has only recently gained a wider
recognition despite the fact that her place in literary history is secure and conferences on her work attract scholars from all
over the world. This project is the culmination of several decades of Richardson scholarship and enjoys the support of the
international community of Richardson scholars. The project builds on and is the inheritor of the work of three critics of the
work of Dorothy Richardson: Gloria Fromm (dec.1992), Gillian Hanscombe, and George H. Thomson. Plans to continue the
work of these critics and produce scholarly editions of Richardson’s letters and novels were conceived at a workshop and a
subsequent international conference in 2007, both funded by a British Academy grant awarded to the PI, Professor Scott
McCracken. The formation of the Richardson Society at that workshop and the subsequent work by the PI and CIs in
creating online resources, organising conferences, and editing the Richardson journal means that research on Richardson
now has a clear focus. One outcome of the formation of the Society was the passing of an almost complete set of copies
and transcripts of Richardson’s correspondence from George H. Thomson to Scott McCracken, to be held at Keele
University on behalf of the Richardson Society for the use of the editors of the Collected Letters. Additional materials have
been donated by Gloria Fromm’s widow, Harold Fromm. Negotiations with the Richardson estate and OUP led to the
signing in 2011 of a contract for the Collected Letters in three volumes and in 2012, the OUP Board of Delegates also
agreed a seven volume scholarly edition of Pilgrimage and the shorter fiction. Scott McCracken was awarded a second
grant British Academy in 2012 that provided for a Research Assistant, Rebecca Bowler, to work on analysing the
transcriptions of the letters one day a week for twelve months. Dr Bowler will continue her work on the letters as a
research assistant on the REP.
Four UK institutions are involved in the project. The General editor and PI is Professor Scott McCracken (Keele). The other
editors and CIs are Professor Laura Marcus (Goldsmith’s Professor of English Literature, Oxford University), Dr Deborah
Longworth (Senior Lecturer in English, University of Birmingham), and Dr Joanne Winning (Senior Lecturer, English,
Birkbeck College, London). Professor George Thomson (University of Ottawa, retired) will act as an editorial advisor to the
project. Each of the investigators is an expert in a particular area of Richardson studies. McCracken has co-ordinated
Richardson research through the Richardson Society and is editor of the Richardson journal. Dr Longworth has done
important research on Richardson as a modernist theorist of the novel and on Pilgrimage as an important urban text.
Professor Marcus is an expert in life writing and in cinema and modernism, who has written on Pilgrimage and on
Richardson’s writings on cinema. Dr Winning’s monograph on Richardson changed the field’s understanding of same-sex
desire in Richardson’s work. In addition, Clare Drewery (Sheffield Hallam), Howard Finn (Queen Mary), and Bryony Randall
(Glasgow) will contribute to individual volumes. The editions will be informed by the latest work in textual scholarship. The
critical apparatus of the edition of the letters will engage with the important role of networks in the emergence of
modernism and a doctoral student will complete a PhD on this topic. The critical apparatus of the editions of the fiction will
engage with genetic criticism to examine the writing process behind the published editions of Richardson’s work. A
doctoral student will complete a genetic study of Pilgrimage. The project will build on a legacy of Richardson scholarship to
produce: The Collected Letters of Dorothy Richardson in three volumes; Richardson’s long novel cycle, Pilgrimage in six
volumes; and a one volume scholarly edition of Richardson’s short stories.
The Letters: Richardson's correspondence is important not only because of what it reveals about Richardson’s own life and
work, but also because it gives a unique insight into literary networks in the period. The letters offer a remarkable record of
the experience Richardson was to turn into literature: that of a young woman entering London's new female workforce in
the late 19th century, experiencing the new, social, sexual, cultural, and political possibilities opening up to women. They
contain significant material about Richardson’s writing process and important evidence of the mediating role of figures
such as agents, publishers, and translators, who acted as conduits between individuals, languages and cultures.
Correspondents included contemporary authors: Compton Mackenzie, André Gide, Aldous Huxley, George Moore, George
Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, Hugh Walpole. Some of the most significant correspondence is with ‘Bryher’, Annie Winifred
Ellerman, heiress and patron to Richardson with whom she was involved in the important avant-garde film magazine, Close
Up. There are also noteworthy letters to: the illustrator, John Austen; S. S. Koteliansky, the translator and friend of D. H.
Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, and Virginia Woolf; the novelist John Cowper Powys; the poet Henry Savage, with whom in
later life Richardson exchanged views on the effects of old age on consciousness and perception; and Percy Beaumont
Wadsworth, the literary journalist and foreign correspondent for the Observer in Berlin in the 1930s. These letters show
the range of Richardson's interests in journalism, translation, and cultural criticism. Although there is very little surviving
correspondence between Richardson and her husband, the artist, Alan Odle, a few of his letters to the novelist Claude
Houghton, written in the early 1940s, outline his aesthetic and his relationship to surrealism. Some of these letters are
annotated and co-signed by Richardson and will be published in the editions from this project.
Currently, there is an out-of-print Selected Letters, edited by Gloria Fromm (Georgia, 1995), which contains 488 items
although some of the dating in this edition requires revision along with other aspects of the scholarly editing. After Fromm,
who died in 1992, the scholar who has done the most work on Richardson's letters has been George H. Thomson. Thomson
inherited Fromm’s material, which included letters she did not have room to publish, and began the work of collecting
copies, making transcriptions, and giving provisional dates to undated correspondence before passing on the material to
the current team. Thomson published a Calendar of letters in 2007, which includes 2086 items. Since that date the editors
have discovered 17 further items. A volume of Richardson's correspondence with John Cowper Powys, edited by Janet
Fouli was published by a small press, Cecil Woolf, in 2008. This contains 104 items from Richardson. Fewer than 30 other
items have been published in books and journals. Thus, the three volumes of the Collected Letters will be of immense value
to critics and scholars of modernism, offering an unparalleled guide to her literary career, an insight into her literary
aesthetic, which finds its concept of art in women’s everyday lives, and an understanding of the relationship between her
aesthetic and the work of her contemporaries. Work has already begun on Volume 1, which is due to be published in 2015.
The Fiction: The thirteen ‘chapter-volumes’ of Pilgrimage are one of the most important examples of literary modernism in
English. The first ‘Chapter’, Pointed Roofs, was begun in 1912 and published in 1915, two years after the publication of the
first volume of A La Recherche du Temps Perdu, a year after the first appearance of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,
and seven years before Woolf’s first experimental novel Jacob’s Room. The first eleven ‘Chapters’ of Pilgrimage were
published between 1915 and 1935 as single volumes. The fifth, Interim (1919) was also serialised in Little Review. A revised
collected edition of the first twelve ‘Chapters’ was published in 1938 in four volumes. Extracts from the thirteenth volume,
March Moonlight, were published in Life and Letters in 1946. A posthumous four volume edition of all thirteen volumes,
including the unfinished March Moonlight was published in 1967. Hanscombe’s paperback edition was published in 1979
by Virago. Richardson wrote twelve short stories. All were published in periodicals and remained uncollected until Trudi
Tate’s unedited and unannotated edition of 1989.
The importance of Pilgrimage has never been in question. The early ‘Chapters’ were well known in avant-garde circles in
London and Paris in the 1920s. Their originality was recognised by Virginia Woolf, Edith Sitwell, John Rodker, William Carlos
Williams and Katherine Mansfield. Richardson’s name was routinely linked with Joyce and Proust and Lawrence in interwar
discussions about modernism. Towards the end of her life she had already started to become the subject of doctoral
theses. In the post-war period, she was written about by critics, such as Leon Edel (1955) and Thomas Staley (1976) who
led the academic institutionalisation of modernist literature. However, it was only with the emergence of second wave
feminism that the full extent of her significance was re-established in criticism. Richardson was ‘rediscovered’ in pioneering
critical works by Elaine Showalter, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar. George Thomson published Notes on Pilgrimage:
Dorothy Richardson annotated (Greensboro NC: ELT Press) in 1999. This text reflects Thomson’s meticulous research and
scholarship over years. The notes of Thomson will form the basis of the new scholarly edition from this project, but much
new material needs to be incorporated. Thomson has also published, as an Ebook with Dorothy F. Thomson, a comparison
of the various editions, including the sections published in periodicals. Recently, her short stories have started to receive
critical attention, notably in Clare Drewery’s Modernist Short Fiction by Women.
Research Methods and Process
Objective 1: Collect, transcribe, edit and annotate all letters from Richardson and selected letters written to her for a three
volume edition of her Collected Letters. Short biographies of the recipients will also be prepared and published as part of the
edition.
To date 2105 letters and cards from Dorothy Richardson have been identified. These are scattered across archives in
Britain and North America. The largest collections are in the Beinecke at Yale and in the Harry Ransom Humanities
Research Centre in Austin, Texas. A few are in private hands. Most of the original autograph letters survive, but in a few
cases only copies remain. The letters begin in c.1900 with a letter to the American feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman and
end in 1952 with Richardson's final illness. Thus far, the editors have obtained copies and preliminary transcripts of all the
known letters. Only seventeen items have been discovered since 2007, so it is unlikely that there will be many new letters.
Most copies are good, but some need to be checked against the originals. The existing preliminary transcriptions are those
done by Gloria Fromm for the Selected Letters and those done for George Thomson. They need further work and all need
be carefully checked against the copies of the originals.
Editing and transcription protocols follow standard scholarly procedure (the protocols can be supplied if needed), a model
will be the AHRC funded Browning Correspondence Project, based at the Centre for Textual Studies, De Montfort
University, for which Professor Andrew Thacker, a member of the project’s Advisory Board, was the PI. For the
correspondence, there will be two categories of notes:
Bibliographical notes, consisting of: a) recipient’s address; b) significant dockets; c) reasons for dating (where there is no
reliable date or postmark available); publication information (if any); d) origin of letter (archive, library, private ownership
etc.).
Footnotes: consisting of a) textual notes; b) editorial notes, including - biographical information, information on literary
and philosophical allusions and influences, information on the item's relevance to Richardson's developing aesthetic,
political and philosophical views, information on relevant historical and social events.
The principles underlying the annotations to the text will incorporate the latest scholarship on the importance of literary
networks in the emergence of modernist cultural formations. The PhD student working on modernist networks will work
closely with the team editing the letters. Scholarly rigour and textual accuracy will be ensured by a staged editorial work
flow, as follows: Copy of original checked for clarity → transcription checked against copy of original → archival copy
consulted if necessary → Editor rechecks transcription; adds textual notes and editorial annotations; adds date (if in
doubt) → General Editor checks transcription, notes, and date (or 2nd Editor if 1st Editor is General Editor) → 1st Editor
to confirm → General Editor to finalise date → proofing.
The structure of the complete edition of the letters will be:
Dorothy Richardson, Collected Letters Vol.1. 1900-1930
Dorothy Richardson, Collected Letters Vol.2. 1931-1940
Dorothy Richardson, Collected Letters Vol.3. 1941-1952
The General Editor will be the PI. All volumes will be co-edited by the PI and the CIs.
Objective 2: Edit Richardson’s long novel cycle, Pilgrimage, in six volumes and a one volume edition of her short stories.
The British first editions of the individual “Chapters” will be used as copy texts in all cases, with the exception of the
posthumously published and unfinished March Moonlight. Although Richardson did make corrections and minor revisions
to the 1938 collected edition, the rationale for using the first editions is that they better reflect the period of modernism in
which they were first written and published. The editorial team includes Joanne Winning, who has done significant work on
the manuscript of March Moonlight. A new version of this text will be published that incorporates scholarship since the
1967 edition.
The variants are not extensive, except in the case of the fifth “Chapter” Interim, where the first edition had a more
experimental approach to punctuation. In all cases, however, notes on variants will be incorporated into the notes for the
critical edition.
Thomson’s annotations combine interpretative work and information. While the editors recognise that there is no clear
dividing line, annotations in the editions will focus on the following:
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references to authors, texts, people, places, and dates;
references to literary, philosophical, and other textual allusions;
cross-references to Richardson’s other published work;
cross-references to Richardson’s unpublished work and correspondence;
significant variants.
As far as possible, interpretative work will be confined to the General Introduction and the Introductions to the volumes.
The principles underlying the textual notes and editorial annotations will draw on the insights of genetic criticism as
pioneered by scholars such as Dirk van Hulle. The PhD student working on a genetic study of Pilgrimage will work closely
with the editors. Richardson’s letters, notes, manuscripts and typescripts (where they exist) will be used to trace the
process whereby the literary text comes into being through an analysis of the writing process that lies behind the published
text. It is therefore of some considerable importance that this project involves working on the letters and the fiction at the
same time. The editing of the letters and the fiction together represents an important opportunity to build on recent
developments and make new advances in textual scholarship.
Three ‘Guest’ editors, Dr Howard Finn (HF), Dr Bryony Randall (BR), Dr Claire Drewery (CD), with particular expertise will be
brought in to work on volumes 4, 5, and 7. Dr Finn has published on Oberland. Dr Randall has written a study of
Richardson, modernism and everyday life. Dr Drewery has published a monograph on Richardson and the modernist short
story.
The proposed structure for the complete edition will be as follows. The General editor will be the PI, initials of editors of
each ‘Chapter’ after title.
Volume 1: General Introduction; Dorothy Richardson, ‘Foreword’; Pointed Roofs (D.Longhurst); Backwater (S.McCracken).
Volume 2: Editors’ Introduction; Honeycomb (J.Winning); The Tunnel (L.Marcus).
Volume 3. Editors’ Introduction; Interim (S.McCracken); Deadlock (D.Longworth)
Volume 4. Editors’ Introduction; Revolving Lights (S.McCracken); The Trap (B.Randall).
Volume 5. Editors’ Introduction; Oberland (H.Finn); Dawn’ s Left Hand (L.Marcus).
Volume 6. Editors’ Introduction; Clear Horizon (J.Winning); Dimple Hill (D.Longworth); March Moonlight (J.Winning).
Volume of Short Stories: Editors’ Introduction; ‘Sunday’; ‘Christmas Eve’; ‘Death’; ‘In the Garden’; ‘Ordeal’; ‘Nook on
Parnassus’; ‘Tryst’; ‘Haven’; ‘Excursion’; ‘Visitor’; ‘Visit’; ‘A Stranger About’ (C.Drewery).
The Supervisors
Dr Joanne Winning, Birkbeck College
Joanne Winning teaches and researches within the fields of 20th-century and 21st-century literatures, culture, theory and
practice. Her specific interests include: modernisms, especially female and lesbian modernism; critical and cultural theory
in the twentieth century; theories of gender and sexuality; lesbian subjectivities and cultural production; psychoanalysis
and its theories; relations between illness, language and the clinical encounter; medical humanities and the interface
between critical theory in the humanities and clinical practice in medicine. She has written extensively on Dorothy
Richardson, her publications include The Pilgrimage of Dorothy Richardson (University of Wisconsin Press, 2000) and
various articles exploring the themes of sexuality, friendship, patronage and cultural production in Richardson's work.
Dr Deborah Longworth, University of Birmingham
Deborah Longworth’s research focuses on English literature from 1880-1940, with a specific focus on gender and
modernism and the modernist novel. The monograph developed from her doctoral thesis, Streetwalking the Metropolis,
was published by Oxford University Press in 2000 and is frequently included in the reading lists for both undergraduate and
postgraduate courses on modernism, women’s writing and urban literature in both the UK and the United States. She has
also produced studies of the American writer Djuna Barnes (Writers and their Works Series: Northcote House) and a study
guide targeted at final-year and taught postgraduate students, Theorists of the Modernist Novel: James Joyce, Dorothy
Richardson and Virginia Woolf (Routledge). Recent articles include a discussion of metaphysics and the influence of Ralph
Waldo Emerson in Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage, and a study of the New York modernist magazine Rogue.
Her recent research and current monograph focuses on the work of Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell. In 2008 she
received a Harry Ransom Mellon Fellowship and AHRC research leave grant for study on the Sitwells