For centuries, the writer’s desk has served as a sacred, solitary space. Virginia Woolf had hers in a garden room, Roald Dahl ...

A writing desk used by Jane Austen is set to return to Southampton as part of the 250th anniversary of the author's birth. The novelist, whose works include Pride and Prejudice and Sense and ...

Jefferson designed the desk while a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1776, and had it built by a Philadelphia cabinetmaker. The "writing box," as he later called it, is of mahogany ...

Thandeka Tutu-Gxashe, talking about the 'Tutu Desk' to the AllAfrica staff in Cape ... Without a hard surface for writing, Africa's poorest children only become semi-literate, limiting their ...