The poor relation / Susanna Bavin.

By: Bavin, Susanna [author]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Leicester [England] : Thorpe, Magna, 2020Edition: Large print editionDescription: 486 pages (large print) ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780750547628; 0750547626Subject(s): Women journalists -- Fiction | Conflict of generations -- Fiction | Self-actualization (Psychology) in women -- Fiction | Manchester (England) -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- FictionGenre/Form: Domestic fiction. | Large type books. Summary: Manchester, 1908. Attractive, intelligent Mary Maitland is furious to learn that her pompous boss will never promote her, simply because she is a woman. Despite financial support from her family, Mary is determined to strike out on her own and earn a living. She finds work at a women's employment agency, where her talent for writing is noticed and she begins publishing articles for newspapers and magazines. But in the face of strong opinions from her well-to-do family on the role of a woman, is it possible to be a dutiful daughter at the same time as spreading her wings?
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Manchester, 1908. Attractive, intelligent Mary Maitland is furious to learn that her pompous boss will never promote her, simply because she is a woman. Despite financial support from her family, Mary is determined to strike out on her own and earn a living. She finds work at a women's employment agency, where her talent for writing is noticed and she begins publishing articles for newspapers and magazines. But in the face of strong opinions from her well-to-do family on the role of a woman, is it possible to be a dutiful daughter at the same time as spreading her wings?

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