The Type-Writer Girl

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)

Genre(s): General Fiction

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 01 01 Introduces a Latter-Day Heroine Grant Hurlock
00:13:09
Play 02 02 The Struggle for Life Grant Hurlock
00:14:51
Play 03 03 Environment Wins Grant Hurlock
00:16:39
Play 04 04 The Choice of a Patron Grant Hurlock
00:08:03
Play 05 05 Vive L'Anarchie Grant Hurlock
00:17:45
Play 06 06 The Inner Brotherhood Grant Hurlock
00:10:39
Play 07 07 A Mutinous Mutineer Grant Hurlock
00:19:50
Play 08 08 Called "Of Accidents" Grant Hurlock
00:15:47
Play 09 09 I Play Carmen Grant Hurlock
00:11:23
Play 10 10 Sic Me Servavit Apollo! Grant Hurlock
00:13:16
Play 11 11 A Sail on the Horizon Grant Hurlock
00:22:25
Play 12 12 A Cavalier Makes Advances Grant Hurlock
00:07:42
Play 13 13 Concerning Romeo Grant Hurlock
00:11:00
Play 14 14 "Now Barabbas Was a Publisher" Grant Hurlock
00:13:14
Play 15 15 Fresh Light on Romeo Grant Hurlock
00:13:43
Play 16 16 I Try Literature Grant Hurlock
00:13:55
Play 17 17 A Drawn Battle Grant Hurlock
00:24:33
Play 18 18 An Autumn Holiday Grant Hurlock
00:12:04
Play 19 19 "O Romeo, Romeo!" Grant Hurlock
00:25:51
Play 20 20 "Wherefore Art Thou Romeo?" Grant Hurlock
00:26:19
Play 21 21 Envoy Plenipotentiary Grant Hurlock
00:14:37
Play 22 22 I Cling to the Rigging Grant Hurlock
00:11:42