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Pilgrimage, Honeycomb

by Dorothy Richardson

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.

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  1. Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
  2. Was there a moment where you disagreed with a character’s choice? What would you have done?
  3. What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
  4. If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
  5. Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?