01 Introduces a Latter-Day Heroine

The Type-Writer Girl

by Grant ALLEN (1848 - 1899)

(under the pseudonym Olive Pratt Rayner) "There is no more pathetic figure in our world to-day than the common figure of the poor young lady, crushed between classes above and below, and left with scarce a chance of earning her bread with decency." So says Juliet Appleton’s boss, encouraging her to put her story into print. How will this college-educated 23-year-old survive the Darwinian Battle of Life in late Victorian England? She’s fundless in London but armed, by way of adaptive structures, with those two high-tech devices of the day: a bicycle for mobility and a typewriter for utility. (Summary by Grant Hurlock)

Listen next episodes of The Type-Writer Girl:
02 The Struggle for Life , 03 Environment Wins , 04 The Choice of a Patron , 05 Vive L'Anarchie , 06 The Inner Brotherhood , 07 A Mutinous Mutineer , 08 Called "Of Accidents" , 09 I Play Carmen , 10 Sic Me Servavit Apollo! , 11 A Sail on the Horizon , 12 A Cavalier Makes Advances , 13 Concerning Romeo , 14 "Now Barabbas Was a Publisher" , 15 Fresh Light on Romeo , 16 I Try Literature , 17 A Drawn Battle , 18 An Autumn Holiday , 19 "O Romeo, Romeo!" , 20 "Wherefore Art Thou Romeo?" , 21 Envoy Plenipotentiary , 22 I Cling to the Rigging