Table of Contents

Introducing the Working Girl
Part I: Typists and Telegraphists
1: 'Work they could do so adroitly': competent or compromised?
2: Authorial integrity and the threat of mechanical writing
Part II: Shop-girls
3: 'The ubiquitous shop-girl': the thrills and perils of selling
4: The literary marketplace and rebellions against commerce
Part III: Barmaids
5: 'Essentially a modern institution': framing the New Barmaid
6: Censorship and the challenge to the Young Person
Afterword
Works Cited

About the Author

Katherine Mullin lectures in Victorian and Modern Literature at the University of Leeds. She is the author of James Joyce, Sexuality and Social Purity (Cambridge University Press, 2003), and articles on Modernism, late-Victorian fiction, and censorship. She is currently working on an edition of George Gissing's New Grub Street for Oxford World's Classics.

Reviews

In exploring the diverse tensions surrounding an emergent female work force, Working Girls ultimately provides a fascinating cultural genealogy of modern postfeminism.
*David M Earle, James Joyce Literary Supplement*

the coverage of Working Girls is extensive and Mullins book is both erudite and enjoyable to read.
*Deborah Wynne, Review of English Studies*