Clean, tight, unmarked; absolute minimal shelfwear; Originally written in 1897. "One of two novels Grant wrote under a female pseudoname. The book invokes tensions typical of the fin de siecle concerning evolution, technology and the role of women.".

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Title: The Type-Writer Girl
Publisher: Broadview Pr, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
Publication Date: 2003
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1551115298
ISBN 13: 9781551115290
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Near Fine

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Synopsis

Juliet Appleton is an officer’s daughter who is forced to make her own way in the world after her father’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 “New Woman”: 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 si�cle 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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Clarissa J. Suranyi teaches English at the University of Western Ontario.

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