TY - GEN AB - 'Working Girls' offers a cultural and literary history of telegraphists, typists, shop-girls, and barmaids. It argues that these occupations helped to shape a distinctively new identity for emancipated young women, and explores how authors used this to navigate a precarious literary landscape. AU - Mullin, Katherine, CN - Oxford Scholarship Online CN - PR468.W6 DO - 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198724841 DO - doi ET - First edition. ID - 756968 KW - English literature KW - English literature KW - Women employees KW - Women telegraphers KW - Typists KW - Women clerks (Retail trade) KW - Bartenders LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198724841.001.0001 N2 - 'Working Girls' offers a cultural and literary history of telegraphists, typists, shop-girls, and barmaids. It argues that these occupations helped to shape a distinctively new identity for emancipated young women, and explores how authors used this to navigate a precarious literary landscape. SN - 9780191792342 T1 - Working girlsfiction, sexuality, and modernity / TI - Working girlsfiction, sexuality, and modernity / UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198724841.001.0001 ER -