"At the sign of the Books." Dicks and Co Advertisement

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Title

"At the sign of the Books." Dicks and Co Advertisement

Description

An Advertisement for Radclyffe Hall's book "The Unlit Lamp." The plot centres on a lesbian coded character who dreams of setting up an apartment with her best friend in London. This advertisement ran in the St. John's based newspaper: The Daily News. Dicks and Co was a Newfoundland based booksellers and binders that opened in 1840, the company still exists under Dicks and Company basics on Empire Avenue in St. John's.

Creator

Dicks and Co

Source

Microfilm held of the St. John's Daily News in the Queen Elizabeth II Library
https://collections.mun.ca/digital/collection/dailynews/id/210245/rec/2

Publisher

Memorial University of Newfoundland Digital Archives Initiative and Centre for Newfoundland Studies

Date

July 11th 1924

Format

jpg

Language

English

Type

advertisment

Citation

Dicks and Co, “"At the sign of the Books." Dicks and Co Advertisement,” The Newfoundland and Labrador Queer Archive, accessed October 5, 2024, http://nlqueerarchive.com/items/show/334.