Title: Working Girls
Description: 'Working Girls' offers a cultural and literary history of telegraphists, typists, shop-girls, and barmaids. It argues that these occupations helped to shape a distinctively new identity for emancipated young women, and explores how authors used this to navigate a precarious literary landscape.
Subjects: English literature, history and criticism, 19th century, English literature, history and criticism, 20th century, Women in literature, English literature, History and criticism, Littérature anglaise, Histoire et critique, Women employees in literature, Women employees, History, Women telegraphers, Typists, Women clerks (Retail trade), Bartenders, Women telegraphers in literature, Typists in literature, Women clerks (Retail trade) in literature, Bartenders in literature