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 ...

The grand new exhibition on the American Presidency in our National Museum of American History displays hundreds of objects—General Washington's uniform and sword, the hat Lincoln wore the night ...

Last week, my dear husband brought me what he thought was a kind-hearted gift — a treasure from his own grandmother’s writing ...