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Document 1 She had been a very clever girl whose essays were always read aloud in class, and she was told by her teachers that with hard study and a grant she might even get to university. But she had been needed to go to work and bring in a
Document 1 She had been a very clever girl whose essays were always read aloud in class, and she was told by her teachers that with hard study and a grant she might even get to university. But she had been needed to go to work and bring in a wage. And how could Ruby afford to buy a grammar school uniform from a specialist shop on a widow's pension? 5 In 1977 Eva left the Leicester High School for Girls and trained as a telephonist at the GPO1. Ruby took two-thirds of her wages for her bed and board. When Eva was sacked for constantly connecting the wrong line to the wrong customer, she was too afraid to tell her mother, so she went and sat at the little Arts and Crafts-designed library and read her way through a selection of the English classics. Then a fortnight after her 10 sacking, the Head Librarian — a cerebral man who had no managerial skills — put up a notice advertising a vacancy for a library assistant: “Qualifications Essential.” She had no suitable qualifications. But at the formal interview the Head Librarian told Eva that in his opinion she was supremely qualified since he had seen her reading The Mill on the Floss, Lucky Jim, Bleak House and even Sons and Lovers. 15 Eva told her mother that she had changed her job and would in future be earning less, at the library. Ruby said she was a fool and that books were over-rated and very unhygienic. “You never know who's been messing about with the pages.” But Eva loved her job. 20 To unlock the heavy outer door and walk into the hushed interior, with the morning light spilling from the high windows onto the waiting books, gave her such pleasure that she would have worked for nothing. Sue Townsend, The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year, 2012 1. GPO: General Post Office 14ANTEV2ME3 Page : 2/5 Document 2 I began writing Throne of Glass when I was 16 —and it became a project that I worked on through high school and college, and several years after that. I decided by the end of high school that I wanted to be a professional writer—that I wanted to publish Throne of Glass. Little did I know just how long it’d take me to reach that goal. 5 Writing as