5/22/2023 0 Comments High Wages by Dorothy Whipple![]() Was conscious of a smell of cotton and woollen stuffs, of a counter to right and a counter to left, a small oil-stove giving out smell without heat, and a headless dummy exhibiting a pink ripple-cloth dressing-gown on its incredible bosom. (Whipple was born in Blackburn.) Chadwick’s is one of those old-fashioned shops with rows of little drawers and eiderdowns and curtain material hanging from the ceiling whilst Jane ![]() ![]() Jane finds work in draper’s shop in the town of Tidsley which is said to be based loosely on Preston. Her father has died and she is at loggerheads with her stepmother. The novel plots the story of Jane Carter who, when the reader first meets her in 1912, is seventeen years old and on the point of leaving home. The title comes from an old saying ‘Experience doth take dreadfully high wages, but she teaches like none other.’ ![]() It was first published in 1930 and was republished by Persephone in 2009 and the quotes in my review are taken from this edition. High Wages is one of Dorothy Whipple’s early novels. ![]()
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