Typing for Love or Money: The Hidden Women’s Labor behind Modern Literary Masterpieces

by The Public Domain Review on publicdomainreview.orgArticle

Taking dictation, revising manuscripts, typing copies, literary amanuenses often labour for little compensation and even less recognition. Christine Jacobson explores the neglected efforts of women like Theodora Bosanquet, Véra Nabokov, and Valerie Eliot, who — through their work as typists,…