Writing as Remembering

Proust’s Influence on Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage

Abstract

This paper aims to examine the influence of Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu on Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage in order to emphasise that Proust’s influence extends beyond the Bloomsbury group. The two protagonists, Marcel from À la recherche and Miriam Henderson from Pilgrimage share the path of becoming authors which is revealed in relation to the process of remembering. Remembering requires a unique handling of time and memory; notions that are based, in the case of these novels, on the theories of Henri Bergson and Paul Sollier.