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  • Jack London at his desk in the cottage "work-room" where he wrote his later novels, such as The Mutiny of the Elsinore and The Star Rover.

    Jack London:Jack London in Cottage Study 2010

  • Then came a work-room full of girls, sewing, and making little fancy ornaments with beads and parti-coloured strips, and rooms full of children of all ages, in the keeping of female attendants whose pleasant and patient countenances were a strong assurance of their being well selected, except in only one instance where we certainly derived a less agreeable impressioneverybody seemed devoted heart and soul to the good work in hand.18

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • Then came a work-room full of girls, sewing, and making little fancy ornaments with beads and parti-coloured strips, and rooms full of children of all ages, in the keeping of female attendants whose pleasant and patient countenances were a strong assurance of their being well selected, except in only one instance where we certainly derived a less agreeable impressioneverybody seemed devoted heart and soul to the good work in hand.18

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • A plainly-furnished work-room in the house of HALVARD SOLNESS.

    The Master Builder 2008

  • Then came a work-room full of girls, sewing, and making little fancy ornaments with beads and parti-coloured strips, and rooms full of children of all ages, in the keeping of female attendants whose pleasant and patient countenances were a strong assurance of their being well selected, except in only one instance where we certainly derived a less agreeable impressioneverybody seemed devoted heart and soul to the good work in hand.18

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • A plainly-furnished work-room in the house of HALVARD SOLNESS.

    The Master Builder 2008

  • Except that I shot them on 16mm, and projected them with a little toy silent hand-swing projector that only had seen Mickey in Arabia pass through it since my early childhood, onto a sheet of drawing paper pinned to the beams in Børge's attic work-room wall with two push pins.

    Archive 2007-05-01 Hans Perk 2007

  • Except that I shot them on 16mm, and projected them with a little toy silent hand-swing projector that only had seen Mickey in Arabia pass through it since my early childhood, onto a sheet of drawing paper pinned to the beams in Børge's attic work-room wall with two push pins.

    All about Leica Reels Hans Perk 2007

  • The whole fabric of that other universe sways for a moment as I come into his room, into his clear and ordered work-room.

    A Modern Utopia Herbert George 2006

  • Lady Constantine thought she would remain to hear his report, and for this purpose withdrew, and sat down in a nook of the adjoining work-room of Swithin, the doctor meeting her as he passed through it into the sick chamber.

    Two on a Tower 2006

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