![]() ![]() The proliferation of the typewriter around the turn of the century was a cultural game-changer, as it meant more and more women were able to enter the workplace. While you mightn’t think it, the typewriter is quite a compelling character in and of itself. ![]() ![]() While I usually go on about my unreliable narrator, Rose, I sometimes forget to elaborate on how studying the history of the typewriter more generally also helped to inspire me. The wheels in my brain got to turning and my imagination ran away with me. ![]() I was fascinated with the sorts of things she might’ve seen at the precinct, and the sorts of reports she might’ve typed up. The story goes: In the course of my academic research I came upon an obituary of a woman who had worked as a typist in a police precinct during America’s Prohibition era. To mark the release of The Other Typist paperback edition, debut author, Suzanne Rindell has stopped by to tell us what her inspiration for writing was and how she took on the task of researching her chosen subject, including the history of the typewriter…Ī question often put to authors is “What inspired you to write this novel?” I’ve answered this question on many occasions, and I customarily tell the story of how I was meant to be working on an academic dissertation on 1920’s literature but wound up writing a fictional tale set in the 1920’s instead. ![]()
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