High Wages
Author | Dorothy Whipple |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Genre | Drama |
Publisher | John Murray |
Publication date | 1930 |
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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 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.
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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.
Categories:
- 1930 British novels
- Novels by Dorothy Whipple
- Novels set in England
- Novels set in the 1910s
- John Murray (publishing house) books
- 1930s novel stubs