It takes the average reader 3 hours and 30 minutes to read Diana of Dobson's by Cicely Hamilton
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Very successful when first performed in London in 1908, Diana of Dobson’s introduces its audience to the overworked and underpaid female assistants at Dobson’s Drapery Emporium, whose only alternative to their dead-end jobs is the unlikely prospect of marriage. Although Cicely Hamilton calls the play “a romantic comedy,” like George Bernard Shaw she also criticizes a social structure in which so-called self-made men profit from the cheap labour of others, and men with good educations, but insufficient inherited money, look for wealthy wives rather than for work. This Broadview edition also...
Diana of Dobson's by Cicely Hamilton is 206 pages long, and a total of 52,736 words.
This makes it 70% the length of the average book. It also has 64% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 48 minutes to read Diana of Dobson's aloud.
Diana of Dobson's is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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