High Wages

High Wages

High Wages (1930) was Dorothy Whipple's second novel. It is about a girl called Jane who gets a badly-paid job in a draperâ€™s shop in the early years of the last century. Yet the title of the book is based on a Carlyle quotation â€“ â€˜Experience doth take dreadfully high wages, but she teacheth like none otherâ€™ â€“ and Jane, having saved some money and been lent some by a friend, opens her own dress-shop.

As Jane Brocket writes in her Persephone Preface: the novel â€˜is a celebration of the Lancastrian values of hard work and stubbornness, and there could be no finer setting for a shop-girl-made-good story than the county in which cotton was king.â€™
Country USA
Manufacturer Persephone Books
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2016-01-21
Format Kindle eBook

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