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Title: |
The Type-Writer Girl |
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| By (author): |
Grant Allen Edited by: Clarissa Suranyi |
| ISBN10-13: |
1551115298 : 9781551115290 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pages: |
139 |
| Weight: |
.250 Kg. |
| Published: |
Broadview Press - December 2003 |
| List Price: |
24.50 Pounds Sterling |
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In Stock
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| Juliet Appleton is an officerâ s daughter who is forced to make her own way in the world after her fatherâ s death. Having been trained in typewriting and shorthand, she obtains employment at a law office, only to find that she cannot bear to work with her unpleasant colleagues and employer. Juliet possesses some of the characteristics of the infamous â New Womanâ : she has attended Girton College, she smokes cigarettes, and she travels the countryside on her bicycle. After various adventures, Juliet finds a new opportunity as a type-writer girl for a publishing company. She falls in love with her employer, and he with her, but complications inevitably ensue. At the end of the nineteenth century, the Canadian-born Grant Allen was a prolific professional author of popular science texts on evolution as well as a fiction writer. The Type-Writer Girl (1897) is one of only two novels he wrote under a female pseudonym, possibly to lend credibility to his first-person female narrator. The Type-Writer Girl invokes tensions typical of the fin de siècle concerning evolution, technology, and the role of women. This Broadview edition provides a reliable text at a very reasonable price. It contains textual notes but no appendices. |
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