Backwater

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<p><i>Backwater</i> is the second installment in <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/dorothy-m-richardson">Dorothy M. Richardson’s</a> pioneering sequence of autobiographical novels, <a href="https://standardebooks.org/collections/pilgrimage">Pilgrimage</a>.</p> <p>Returning from Germany after the events of the first novel, <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/dorothy-m-richardson/pointed-roofs"><i>Pointed Roofs</i></a>, Miriam Henderson, now eighteen years old, takes a position as a teacher in a North London suburban school. While there she must manage her doubts and fears about her own future, while negotiating changes and difficulties in her own family.</p>

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