The Editions of Dorothy Richardson
The Editions of Dorothy Richardson's Table of Pilgrimage: A Comparison of Texts by George H. Thomson CONTENTS with Dorothy F. Thomson
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Sources & About the Book How to Use E-book Introduction ELT Homepage Acknowledgments
Collected Editions & English First Editions Compared
CHAPTER I Volume I
Book 1 Pointed Roofs Book 2 Backwater Book 3 Honeycomb
CHAPTER II Volume II
Book 4 The Tunnel Book 5 Interim
CHAPTER III Volume III
Book 6 Deadlock Book 7 Revolving Lights Book 8 The Trap
CHAPTER IV Volume IV
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Book 10 Book 13 Book 9 Oberland Book 11 Clear Horizon Dawn's Left Hand March Moonlight
CHAPTER V
Pilgrimage: The English and American First Editions Compared
CHAPTER VI
Interim: The English First Edition and The Little Review Compared
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by GEORGE H. THOMSON
George H. Thomson’s The Editions of Dorothy Richardson’s 'Pilgrimage': A Comparison of Texts begins with an introduction defining methods and goals. The six following chapters set out in table format the many variants identified by comparing the different editions of the Pilgrimage texts. The 1938 Collected Edition of Pilgrimage, reprinted in 1967 with March Moonlight added, was revised and proofread by Dorothy Richardson herself. Is the revised text reliable? How does it compare with the texts of the English First Editions, ten of them issued by Duckworth between 1915 and 1931 and one by Dent in 1935?
These questions are answered in Chapters I through IV of this study, corresponding to Volumes I through IV of the Collected Edition of Pilgrimage. And further, how do the English First Editions of the first six novels, from Pointed Roofs to Deadlock, compare with the reset texts published by Knopf in New York between 1919 and 1921? And which of these first editions serve as copy text for the Collected Edition? These questions are answered in Chapter V.
Finally, what may be learned by comparing the periodical version of Interim in the Little Review with the significantly revised text of the English First Edition? The answer is offered in Chapter VI: so great are the changes, it is as though for this one time we are allowed to glimpse in the Little Review a Richardson MS in an earlier state of development.
The Editions of Dorothy Richardson’s 'Pilgrimage': A Comparison of Texts is the first detailed examination of Richardson’s Pilgrimage texts. It completes Professor Thomson’s reading of Dorothy Richardson, begun in A Reader’s Guide to Dorothy Richardson’s "Pilgrimage" (ELT Press, 1996), and continued in Notes on 'Pilgrimage': Dorothy Richardson Annotated (ELT Press 1999). Taken together these three books enable readers to understand Richardson as a key figure of the modernist movement and to appreciate Pilgrimage as one of British literature's most challenging, most rewarding, most underestimated masterpieces.
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The Editions of Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage : A Comparison of Texts
Sources and by George H. Thomson Acknowledgments with Dorothy F. Thomson
It is a pleasure, as always, to thank Elizabeth Howell of the Richardson Estate and Paterson Marsh Ltd., the Estate’s Agent, for permission to quote from the following sources: the various editions and versions of Pilgrimage cited in the chapters of this book; also Dorothy Richardson's unpublished letters to Bryher, 17 [April] 1934 and 27 January 1937; to I. R. Brussel, 4 October 1934; to S. S. Koteliansky, 24 February 1936; and to P. B. Wadsworth, 27 January 1938. A number of letters already published in Windows on Modernism: The Selected Letters of Dorothy Richardson (Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1995) are also cited. The letters to Bryher are housed in The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University; those to Brussel in The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin; those to Koteliansky in The British Library {Manuscript Division}, London; and those to Wadsworth in the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. I am grateful to each of them for their assistance.
In the Foreword I have described the major contribution of my wife, Dorothy F. Thomson, to this book. The debt goes beyond any appreciation I can express. I am also indebted to Laurie Maguire for her interested and careful reading of the manuscript. My other debt is to Robert Langenfeld, my faithful editor, who has seen me through two previous books and now this one, with unfailing patience and sound judgment. I am most grateful too for the detailed care his assistant, Kelly Cunningham, has exercised in transforming the MS into an E-Book.
The Texts of Pilgrimage
Here I repeat what is stated in the introduction. For Pilgrimage I have cited the Collected Edition, 4 volumes, London: J. M. Dent, 1967. Except for the addition of March Moonlight, this 1967 edition is a reissue of the 1938 edition by Dent. The New York: Alfred A. Knopf editions of 1938 and 1967 are from sheets supplied by J. M. Dent. In essentials, then, and with the exception noted that March Moonlight was added in 1967, all Collected Editions of Pilgrimage are textually identical, including later ones by Popular Library, Virago and the University of Illinois Press (Volume I). As of October 2001, all four volumes of the London: Virago Press edition are unavailable since they are being processed for reissue.
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