The cover page is adapted from Interior in Strandgade, Sunlight on the Floor, a painting completed in 1901 by Vilhelm Hammershøi. The cover and title pages feature the League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy typefaces created in 2014 and 2009 by The League of Moveable Type. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilhelm_Hammershøiwww.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/
Honeycomb
Chapters (11)
- I 0:00
- II 32:26
- III 49:21
- IV 1:37:21
- V 2:19:06
- VI 2:42:55
- VII 2:51:15
- VIII 3:00:21
- IX 3:19:58
- X 3:48:04
- XI 5:08:41
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Honeycomb is the third installment in Dorothy M. Richardson’s pioneering sequence of semi-autobiographical novels, Pilgrimage.
Miriam Henderson, after spending time as a teacher in a German school in the first novel, Pointed Roofs, and in a suburban London school in the second, Backwater, has found a place as governess with a wealthy English family. From her perspective as an outsider she observes the lives of the wealthy women who live in, and visit, the house.
At the same time, after her father’s disgrace Miriam’s own family faces challenges and changes—including her sisters’ marriages—leaving Miriam with a closer relationship, and a new understanding, of her mother.