· High Wages by Dorothy Whipple. Aug By Fleur in her World in Book Reports Tags: Persephone Books 10 Comments. First a confession – and an unusual one for a Persephone lover – before this week I had never read anything by Dorothy Whipple! I have collected her novels but, because they all seem to be long books and because I have heard so much good about Estimated Reading Time: 3 mins. · High Wages begins in , the year Kipps was published, and Dorothy Whipple covers much of the same territory - there is a focus on the unnecessary hardships of the working poor, and on their vulnerabilities, and on the inequities inherent in a stratified society. Jane Carter is exploited by her employer because nothing constrains him from exploiting her, she is underfed and poorly housed by . High Wages () was Dorothy Whipple's second novel. It is about a girl called Jane who gets a badly-paid job in a draper’s shop in the early years of the last century. Yet the title of the book is based on a Carlyle quotation – ‘Experience doth take dreadfully high wages, but she teacheth like none other’ – and Jane, having saved some money and been lent some by a friend, opens her own dress-shop/5(39).
"High Wages" by Dorothy Whipple is another winner. As other reviewers have noted, this is a fairly simple story about the rise of a young shopgirl from ill paid work as an assistant at the haberdashery counter to becoming the owner of her own store. In contrast to Someone at a Distance (still my favourite) which was published in , High Wages was one of Dorothy Whipple's earlier books, published in and set in an earlier time frame. The story opens in and spans several years taking in World War One. High Wages by Dorothy Whipple is a charming story of a woman in the 'man's world of women's clothing', as Jane Brocket puts it in the introduction to the Persephone edition. Set in Whipple's native Lancashire the story follows Jane, an 18 year old orphan beginning life away from her step-mother. She is living-in over a draper's shop in Tidsley, a northern market/manufacturing town with a.
High Wages begins in , the year Kipps was published, and Dorothy Whipple covers much of the same territory - there is a focus on the unnecessary hardships of the working poor, and on their vulnerabilities, and on the inequities inherent in a stratified society. Jane Carter is exploited by her employer because nothing constrains him from exploiting her, she is underfed and poorly housed by her employer's wife because to speak up would mean being left homeless, and she is harassed by a. High Wages [Whipple, Dorothy] on www.doorway.ru *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. High Wages. DOROTHY WHIPPLE, High Wages () How strange life was with its ebbings and flowings, its fluctuations, its inexplicable movements towards and away from. This line, coming toward the end of High Wages, sums up rather neatly it’s elegant themes. A page-turning sort of rags-to-riches story, but made unique and completely convincing by its strong dose of realism, this is the third Dorothy Whipple novel I’ve read, and the earliest (it was her second, after Young Anne in ).
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