Description of the site

In early 1887, Miss Sarah Farran and Miss Ethel Dickens open up one of the first commercial typing offices in London. They specialize in plays and prompt-books, according to the published snippet announcements of their new business. Their partnership appears to last only about 10 months before Ethel opens her own office in Wellington Street. Miss Farran, and her nieces Ethel Blanche Farran and Ida Farran, appear to continue to operate this business at least into the 1890s.

Ethel's professional offices were located here between 1891 or 1892 and at least 1896. In 1895 and 1896, Ethel lists both her professional address and her place of abode (in the Electoral Register) as "3 Tavistock Street."

Spanish town was the capital of Jamaica until 1872, during which the colony was under British rule (History of Jamaica, Wikipedia).  Around the time Jane Eyre was written, slavery in Jamaica was abolished, disrupting the plantation system, leading to an overhaul of previous social and economic models (History of Jamaica, Embassy of Jamaica).  Major contributors to the emancipation of West African slaves were British Christian missionaries; However, shortly after the abolishment of slavery, people from India and China began arriving in Jamaica as Indentured Servants (Histo