ABSTRACT
IN tracing the emergence of the working woman in literature, one observes that her prominence in belles-Ietlres is in proportion to the degree of her conformity with the traditional patterns of her age. Only when the writer and the wage-earner have been one, as in the case of the governess, does the new heroine come forth. Elsewhere the worker is either neglected or presented in a way not wholly justified by the facts. Such a condition has complicated a study of working women.
