The Long Day (Esprios Classics) - Richardson, Dorothy
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"The rain was falling in great gray blobs upon the skylight of the little room in which I opened my eyes on that February morning whence dates the chronological beginning of this autobiography. The jangle of a bell had awakened me, and its harsh, discordant echoes were still trembling upon the chill gloom of the daybreak. Lying there, I wondered whether I had really heard a bell ringing, or had only dreamed it. Everything about me was so strange, so painfully new. Never before had I waked to find myself in that dreary, windowless little room, and never before had I lain in that narrow, unfriendly bed."¿…mehr

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"The rain was falling in great gray blobs upon the skylight of the little room in which I opened my eyes on that February morning whence dates the chronological beginning of this autobiography. The jangle of a bell had awakened me, and its harsh, discordant echoes were still trembling upon the chill gloom of the daybreak. Lying there, I wondered whether I had really heard a bell ringing, or had only dreamed it. Everything about me was so strange, so painfully new. Never before had I waked to find myself in that dreary, windowless little room, and never before had I lain in that narrow, unfriendly bed."¿
Autorenporträt
Dorothy Richardson was born in Prospect, Pennsylvania, in 1972, the daughter of a physician. She began her career as a journalist for the Pittsburgh Dispatch. She also wrote for the Social Democrat and a Chicago magazine called the New Times. She published The Long Day in 1905 while working for the New York Herald. Cindy Sondik Aron is Associate Professor of History at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Ladies and Gentlemen of Civil Service: Middle-Class Workers in Victorian America.