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High Wages

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High Wages
First edition
AuthorDorothy Whipple
LanguageEnglish
GenreDrama
PublisherJohn Murray
Publication date
1930
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint

High Wages is a 1930 novel by the British writer Dorothy Whipple. One of her first novels, it follows a young woman who rises from being a worker in a dress shop to owning her own business in the years after the First World War.[1] It was an instant commercial success and established Whipple as a popular writer over the following two decades.[2] As part of a revival of interest in her work, it was republished by Persephone Books in 2009.

References

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  1. ^ Sponenberg p.276
  2. ^ Plock p.92

Bibliography

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  • Boyiopoulos, Kostas, Patterson, Anthony and Sandy, Mark (ed.) Literary and Cultural Alternatives to Modernism: Unsettling Presences. Routledge, 2019.
  • Plock, Vike Martina. Modernism, Fashion and Interwar Women Writers. Edinburgh University Press, 2017.
  • Sponenberg, Ashlie. Encyclopedia of British Women’s Writing 1900–1950. Springer, 2006.