High Wages

{{Short description|1930 novel}}

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| author = Dorothy Whipple

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| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

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| genre = Drama

| publisher = John Murray

| release_date = 1930

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High Wages is a 1930 novel by the British writer Dorothy Whipple. 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.Sponenberg p.276 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 in 2009.