AW took with her from Eatonton to Atlanta three gifts from her mother: a suitcase, a sewing machine, and a typewriter.

She did not press for payment, and when the publisher, William Blackwood , offered her remuneration she replied that she knew about my cousin's debt to you , and it was because of this that I said nothing of payment for my work. As you wish to send me an acknowledgment of it now, I will willingly accept what you propose—fifty guineas and nine guineas typewriting expenses.

Huge crowds attended the put-up job, as DW called it, of the auction of her goods at Wortham Manor following her bankruptcy: every item (including car, bedding, and typewriter) was bought by A. G. Mobbs and returned to her.

During the first half of her life, STW wrote her letters on a typewriter; later in life, however, she usually wrote them by hand. She often wrote two or three letters a day.

FW wrote her first television play while she was a housewife in Acton, about a prostitute living as a married woman in a suburb rather like Acton. The BBC turned it down because of its subject-matter. She wrote her next, A Catching Complaint, in the last weeks of her second pregnancy, writing it by hand for a friend to type, since her husband disliked the noise of the typewriter. She got the taxi to stop on the way to hospital to have the baby, so that she could post her manuscript. She wept in public in 1969 when informed that her BBC Wednesday play Smoke Screen (about an advertising man who works on a cigarette account and dies of lung cancer) had scored low in the ratings. She has written numerous radio plays, and more than fifty television plays and films on a wide range of subjects for the BBC , English commercial networks, and American television. Some of her novels, like The Fat Woman's Joke and The Heart of the Country, began as television plays or series; others, like The Cloning of Joanna May, were televised later.

The first lady typewriter (civil service typist) was appointed by Ireland's Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction .

Before standardization of keyboard layout, typists (most often women, referred to popularly as typewriters) could operate an extremely limited number of typewriter models. After 1905 it became possible to learn the configuration and operate any and all makes of typewriters.

Christopher Latham Sholes , an American printer, took out a patent on an early working model of the typewriter, which he and his associates had invented the previous year.

The first women typists in the Civil Service were appointed; these women were often referred to as female typewriters.

Christopher Latham Sholes of the USA signed a contract with E. Remington and Sons of New York to produce portable typewriters.

The BritishCivil Service added the class Female Typewriters, whose job was to copy handwritten material.