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High Wages (1930) 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. As Jane Brocket writes in her Persephone Preface: the novel '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.'
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