{"id":19229,"date":"2017-09-24T22:37:37","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T21:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=19229"},"modified":"2017-09-24T22:37:37","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T21:37:37","slug":"dorothy-richardson-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=19229","title":{"rendered":"Dorothy Richardson Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17092406.jpg\" alt=\"Dorothy Richardson\" \/><br \/>\nOver the last week there has been an exhibition at the Abingdon County Hall Musuem about one of the most influential novelists of the twentieth century &#8211; Dorothy Richardson, who was born in Abingdon.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17092403.jpg\" alt=\"Dorothy Richardson\" \/><br \/>\nShe lived for the first 8 years of her life in Abingdon and the exhibition tells us about her grandfather &#8211; a successful local trader, and her father who aspired to escape trade and become a gentleman of leisure.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17092401.jpg\" alt=\"Dorothy Richardson\" \/><br \/>\nShe lived for the first 8 years of her life at number 18 Park Crescent in Abingdon.<\/p>\n<p>A few years ago I believe there was a discussion at the Oxfordshire Blue Plaques scheme about who next to honour in Abingdon. In contention was Arthur Preston, a local historian and civic dignitary of local importance, and Dorothy Richardson, the creator of a new style of female novel, labeled &#8216;stream of consciousness&#8217;. They both lived at the same house, and the blue plaque went to Arthur Preston.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17092405.jpg\" alt=\"Dorothy Richardson\" \/><br \/>\nDorothy Richardson is held in great honour and people came on pilgrimage throughout the week of the exhibition from far flung places.<\/p>\n<p>This was also a chance for some of us who live in &nbsp;the town of her birth to become acquainted with her works for the first time.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17092414.jpg\" alt=\"Dorothy Richardson\" \/><br \/>\nShe wrote a series of thirteen novels &#8211; together called Pilgrimage &#8211; following the life of Miriam. The first is called &#8216;Pointed Roofs&#8217;. You can find out more at <a href=\"http:\/\/dorothyrichardson.org\/\">http:\/\/dorothyrichardson.org\/<\/a> which includes a review of the exhibition at the <a href=\"https:\/\/dorothyrichardsonblog.wordpress.com\/2017\/09\/20\/dorothy-richardson-in-abingdon\/\">Dorothy Richardson Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last week there has been an exhibition at the Abingdon County Hall Musuem about one of the most influential novelists of the twentieth century &#8211; Dorothy Richardson, who was born in Abingdon. She lived for the first 8 years of her life in Abingdon and the exhibition tells us about her grandfather &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}