![]() ![]() ![]() She works long hours, lives above the shop where she shares a bedroom with the other shop girl, and is paid considerably less than mill girls. “I couldn’t get up at half-past five.”īut Jane’s life as a shop girl in reality is little better than the mill girls. “Thank goodness I don’t go to the mill” breathed Jane, plunging back into bed. ![]() She woke to the blackness filled with clogs.Dark shapes streamed across the market place. Jane is one step up from the local mill girls. Jane Carter, the heroine of this novel, is a Northern young woman who has to leave school and get a job as a shop girl after the death of her father. High Wages is set in 1912 and describes the lives of many young women of that era who had limited educational and career options. ![]()
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