• The male clerk with his quill pen and copper-plate handwriting had gone for good. The female short-hand typist took his place. It was a decisive moment in women's emancipation.

    A. J. P. Taylor: The male clerk with his quill pen and copper-plate handwriting had gone for good. The female short-hand typist took his place. It was a decisive moment in women's emancipation.
    A. J. P. Taylor (2001). “English History 1914-1945”, p.38, Oxford Paperbacks