''High Wages'' is a 1930 novel by the British writer

Dorothy Whipple Dorothy Whipple (née Stirrup) (26 February 1893 – 14 September 1966) was an English writer of popular fiction and children's books. Her work gained popularity between the world wars and again in the 2000s. Personal life Dorothy Stirrup was ...

. One of her first novels, it follows a young woman who rises from being a worker in a dress shop to owning her own business in the years after the

First World War World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

. It was an instant commercial success and established Whipple as a popular writer over the following two decades.Plock p.92 As part of a revival of interest in her work, it was republished by

Persephone Books ''Persephone Books'' is an independent publisher based in Bath, England. Founded in 1999 by Nicola Beauman, Persephone Books reprints works largely by women writers of the late 19th and 20th century, though a few books by men are included. Th ...

in 2009.

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* Boyiopoulos, Kostas, Patterson, Anthony and Sandy, Mark (ed.) ''Literary and Cultural Alternatives to Modernism: Unsettling Presences''. Routledge, 2019. * Plock, Vike Martina. ''Modernism, Fashion and Interwar Women Writers''. Edinburgh University Press, 2017. * Sponenberg, Ashlie. ''Encyclopedia of British Women’s Writing 1900–1950''. Springer, 2006. 1930 British novels Novels by Dorothy Whipple Novels set in England Novels set in the 1910s John Murray (publishing house) books {{1930s-novel-stub