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.

[1] It was an instant commercial success and established Whipple as a popular writer over the following two decades.

[2] As part of a revival of interest in her work, it was republished by Persephone Books in 2009.

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