Working Girls: Fiction, Sexuality, and Modernity

Synopsis

'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. 'work They Could Do So Adroitly': Competent Or Compromised? -- Authorial Integrity And The Threat Of Mechanical Writing -- 'the Ubiquitous Shop-girl': The Thrills And Perils Of Selling -- The Literary Marketplace And Rebellions Against Commerce -- 'essentially A Modern Institution': Framing The New Barmaid -- Censorship And The Challenge To The Young Person. Katherine Mullin. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 249-258) And Index.