Can anyone think of any novels and characters who have found their profession is heading towards absolescence, I can only think of Branco the 'chestnut roaster' from Joseph Roth's 'Emperor's Tomb' as an example of someone who was a practicioner of a disappearing profession?

mibmob

There's Joe(?) the dung sweeper in Bleak House Nov 20 02, 3:44 PM

Barrow boy

'Jane Eyre' was published in (I think) 1848 when the railway revolution was well under way. The coachman who took her from Thornfield to Whitcross should have been thinking about re-training as an engine driver. Nov 20 02, 5:29 PM

Linus

Arthur Dent from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy found that his job in local radio became obsolete when Vogon constructor ships demolished the Earth to make way for a hyperspace bypass. Nov 20 02, 8:16 PM

Jac	Bleak House and many other Victorian novels contain hordes of examples. The spontaneously combusting scribe is one that springs to mind. Nov 20 02, 10:13 PM

greencavalier

Dunc, did you mean that their profession is dying out, during the course of the novel? Because 90% of the occupations in novels set in Victorian times or earlier will most likely be gone now. Nov 21 02, 6:46 AM

Dunc	Preferable the profession is disappearing in the character's lifetime, forcing the character to reskill. Nov 21 02, 1:22 PM

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