Box, Muriel. Odd Woman Out. Leslie Frewin, 1974.
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Employer | Elizabeth Jenkins | EJ
's war work was done in the Civil Service
, first for the Assistance Board
which helped in the settlement of Jewish refugees and then with compensation payments to those whose property had been... |
Occupation | Muriel Box | Muriel's mother surprised her by sympathising with her desire to get into pictures, while her father saw nothing wrong with being a typist. Box, Muriel. Odd Woman Out. Leslie Frewin, 1974. 59 |
Occupation | Ray Strachey | Philippa Strachey
was also active in the bureau, which shifted after the war to dealing with the problems of women newly unemployed because of men returning from the armed forces. Edith Lyttelton
joined in the... |
Occupation | Amber Reeves | While she held this job, the wages of female munitions workers went up from twelve shillings to twenty-eight (from about a quarter of her own pay to about half). She was a member of the... |
Occupation | Philip Larkin | PL
became urban district librarian for the town of Wellington in Shropshire, having graduated BA, failed the entrance exam for the Civil Service
, and been ordered by the Ministry of Defence
to take... |
Occupation | P. D. James | PDJ
chose the Civil Service
because, with her husband and two daughters to support, she saw it as a safe job. Having qualified herself in hospital administration through evening classes, she was put in charge... |
Reception | Doreen Wallace | Wallace's publisher, Sir William Collins
, was moved by this novel to compliment DW
on one of the most imaginative pieces of writing he had encountered for a long time. In his capacity as a... |
Textual Features | Naomi Royde-Smith | Proof is a skilfully presented tale about Agnes Blundell, a stereotypically stupid, self-regarding, and possessive wife. She is secretly a laughing-stock among her husband's male acquaintance for telling, at the drop of a hat, a... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Christabel Pankhurst | Having pointed out that women acquire on marriage an extra set of legal disabilities to go with those they had before, and having argued that without the vote women are in no state to alter... |
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