Pointed Roofs
Author: first_name: Dorothy
last_name: Richardson
Language: English
Year: 1915

Miriam Henderson is one of what novelist Dolf Wyllarde (in her great work, <i>The Pathway of the Pioneer</i>) termed "nous autres," i.e., young gentlewomen who must venture forth and earn their living after their fathers have been financially ruined. Also, she has read Villette; she thus applies for and is offered a job teaching conversational English at a girls' school, albeit in Germany rather than France. <i>Pointed Roofs</i> describes her year abroad, as she endeavors to make her way in the