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                            Introduction
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'The Long Day: The Story of a New York Working Girl, As Told by
Herself' is a novel by Dorothy Richardson. The book was originally
published anonymously in 1905 by Century Company in New York. Dorothy
Richardson, who was a middle-class woman born in 1882, was not the
same Dorothy Richardson who wrote stream-of-consciousness novels in
Great Britain.


                             Background
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'The Long Day: The Story of a New York Working Girl, As Told by
Herself' is a book about the life of a working-class girl. She was
formerly a teacher in a small town, but is now alone in New York City,
living day to day on a few dollars. She lives from boarding house to
boarding house, experiencing harsh rules, starvation, and the death of
a friend. Furthermore, she works in a number of different positions,
including box-making, flower/feather making, sewing, and finally, a
shaker. Throughout this time, she learns what it is like to live on a
few dollars a week, working twelve-hour shifts with horrible
conditions and few breaks. Ultimately, she is able to earn a
respectable living as a typewriter.

At the time the book was released, Richardson remained anonymous. "Her
book presents itself as the product of an anonymous worker. She never
names herself to the reader as a middle-class person venturing into a
different world to study it" (Pittenger 26).


                            New edition
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The novel was republished in 1990 by University of Virginia Press
('The Long Day: The Story of a New York Working Girl. With an
introduction by Cindy Sondik Aron'), though this edition is now out of
print. The book is split into 16 chapters, with an introduction
written by Cindy Sondik Aron. In this introduction, Aron discusses how
the protagonist "found working women to be the victims, not of an
economic system that limited women’s job opportunities and extracted
the most labor for the least pay, but of cultural limitations imposed
by their class and of intellectual and physical limitations that
allegedly stemmed from their sex". This republication is 344 pages in
length.


                           External links
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[https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/thesocialist-seattle/269-SS-1905-11-18.pdf
Review] by Jack London


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