The Woolworths girl's promise, Elaine Everest
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The Woolworths girl's promise, Elaine Everest
Language
eng
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no index present
Literary Form
novels
Main title
The Woolworths girl's promise
Responsibility statement
Elaine Everest
Series statement
Woolworths girls, 8
Summary
After losing her beloved fiance at Ypres in 1917, seventeen-year-old Elizabeth Billington faces a lonely future estranged from her upper-class parents due to her association with Charlie Sayers and his working-class family. No longer able to live under her parents roof she is taken in by Charlies father, escaping the suffocating demands of her parents. Betty soon learns all too well about the realities of life after an accident at the Woolwich Arsenal munitions works. Spotting an advertisement for a nearby job at Woolworths, Betty starts on a new and thrilling journey starting at the bottom of the employment ladder in the well-known store. Her work journey leads her to Ramsgate in Kent to work in a newly built store and with it the chance of marriage, but can she ever forget Charlie and the promise she made to him...?
Target audience
adult
Creator
Subject
- Upper class families -- Fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Women employees -- Fiction
- Stores, Retail -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- F.W. Woolworth and Co -- Fiction
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
- Female friendship -- Fiction
- Working class families -- Fiction
- Grief -- Fiction
- Great Britain -- History -- George V, 1910-1936 -- Fiction
Content
Author
Incoming Resources
- Has instance1
Outgoing Resources
- Creator1
- Genre2
- Subject11
- Upper class families -- Fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Women employees -- Fiction
- Stores, Retail -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- F.W. Woolworth and Co -- Fiction
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
- Female friendship -- Fiction
- Working class families -- Fiction
- Grief -- Fiction
- Great Britain -- History -- George V, 1910-1936 -- Fiction
- Content1
- Author1