ABSTRACT
In The Tunnel (1919), the fourth ‘chapter-novel’ in Dorothy Richardson’s thirteen-volume Pilgrimage (1915-67), the protagonist Miriam Henderson reflects on the life of her friends Mag and Jan and realises her own position is ‘somehow between two worlds, neither quite sheltered, nor quite free’ (II, 163). In both her home life in Mrs Bailey’s lodgings and her employment as a dental secretary, Miriam operates in environments that frequently imitate the protected life of the traditional family home, but which always remain in an ambiguous space on the periphery.
