Miss Dickens's Type-Writing Office, 21 Tavistock Street, Covent Garden/the Strand

Ethel Dickens operated her typing business from this location from sometime in 1897 until sometime in 1900 or 1901. In the Electoral Register of 1897, she lists her place of work and her place of habitation as the same: 21 Tavistock Street. In 1898, she moves her place of abode to 91 Philbeach Gardens, sharing a home with Bertha, but her office remains at 21 Tavistock until the turn of the century. Around 1905, she returns to the 21 Tavistock Street premises, though only briefly it seems.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his work "Jenny"

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This page looks at the work of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, specifically his poem Jenny. Rossetti was an extremely influencial English poet and artist who was a founder of the Pre Raphaelite movement. Artist and literary creators who identified with the Pre-Raphaelite genre aimed to break free from the idealistic and “rigid” structure of traditional Victorian art. The Pre-Raphaelite’s sought to portray naturalistic and hyper-realistic representations of their subjects and environments, demonstrating how sensuality, spirituality, and morality all play apart in the human experience.

Jenny Annotation

Lazy laughing languid Jenny,
Fond of a kiss and fond of a guinea,
Whose head upon my knee to-night
Rests for a while, as if grown light
With all our dances and the sound
To which the wild tunes spun you round:
Fair Jenny mine, the thoughtless queen
Of kisses which the blush between
Could hardly make much daintier;
Whose eyes are as blue skies, whose hair
Is countless gold incomparable:
Fresh flower, scarce touched with signs that tell

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