{"product_id":"the-typewriter-girl","title":"The Type-Writer Girl","description":"\u003cp\u003eJuliet Appleton is an officers daughter who is forced to make her own way in the world after her fathers 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 sicle 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44960941342773,"sku":"ByrdShop_1551115298","price":38.07,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781551115290.jpg?v=1770394739","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-typewriter-girl","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}