A considerable proportion of the Dorothy Richardson's novel, Pilgrimage, is devoted to descriptions of the places which her heroine Miriam inhabits, the atmospheres which they possess and the significance which they come to assume for her. At the same time, these spatial descriptions are brought into play as semantically encoded sites and localities which structure the entire text so as to display the enspacement of human existence. By privileging the atmospheric quality in her descriptions of scenes Richardson seeks to expose the existential significance which spaces take on in the psychic life of her protagonist. This introduction seeks to explore the issue of liminality and simultaneity in Pilgrimage by examining Dorothy Richardson's textual enspacements, whereby, as Max Bense suggests, space should be conceived as the nodal point knotting together a variety of instances.