Pointed Roofs

{{Short description|1915 novel by Dorothy Richardson}}

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{{infobox book |

| name = Pointed Roofs

| image = Hannover Georgstraße mit Theater (um 1895).jpg

| caption = Am Kröpcke, the centre of the city of Hanover, in 1895. Richardson was there in 1891.

| author = Dorothy Richardson

| country = England

| language = English

| genre = Novel

| publisher = Duckworth

| release_date = 1915

| followed_by = Backwater

}}

Pointed Roofs, published in 1915, is the first work (she called it a "chapter") in Dorothy Richardson's (1873–1957) series of 13 semi-autobiographical novels titled Pilgrimage,{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MEz_3E-SnA0C|title=The Pilgrimage of Dorothy Richardson|publisher=Univ of Wisconsin Press|year=2000|isbn=978-0-299-17034-9|author=Joanne Winning}} and the first complete stream of consciousness novel published in English. The novelist May Sinclair (1863–1946) first applied the term "stream of consciousness" in a review of Pointed Roofs (The Egoist April 1918).

Miriam Henderson, the central character in Pilgrimage, is based on the author's own life between 1891 and 1915.Goria G. Fromm, ed., Windows on Modernism: Selected Letters of Dorothy Richardson, ed. Athens, Georgia, U. of Georgia Press, 1995, xviii–xix. In Pointed Roofs, seventeen-year-old Miriam Henderson has her first adventure as an adult teaching English at a finishing school in Hanover, Germany. Richardson herself had left home in 1891, at seventeen, to take up the post of student teacher at a school in Hanover, because of her father's financial problems.{{Cite web | author=Rebecca Bowler | title=Dorothy M Richardson deserves the recognition she is finally receiving | newspaper=The Guardian | date=15 May 2015 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2015/may/15/dorothy-m-richardson-deserves-recognition-finally-receiving}}