The following, from the Illustrated Phonographic World, Sept. 1895, offers a considerably unflattering view of female typists, then called typewriters or typewritists.

Indexed at Women and the typewriter at Type-Writer.org.
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Entertaining. I like the glimpse of bicycle madness. Not to be a stickler, but he uses the word “typewritists,” not “typewriterists.”
Thanks, corrected!