Honeycomb

de Dorothy Richardson · Publicada por primera vez en 1917

<p><i>Honeycomb</i> is the third installment in <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/dorothy-m-richardson">Dorothy M. Richardson’s</a> pioneering sequence of semi-autobiographical novels, <a href="https://standardebooks.org/collections/pilgrimage">Pilgrimage</a>.</p> <p>Miriam Henderson, after spending time as a teacher in a German school in the first novel, <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/dorothy-m-richardson/pointed-roofs"><i><i>Pointed Roofs</i></i></a>, and in a suburban London school in the second, <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/dorothy-m-richardson/backwater"><i>Backwater</i></a>, 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.</p> <p>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.</p>