Casgliadau Arlein

Hardback book: ‘The Poets Birthday Book’ edited by Clarence Sinclair (1907). Green page marker attached. Inscription on first page – ‘This book is the treasured property of Miss J. Knight, Tattoo Artist…’

Jessie Knight was the first prominent female tattooist in the UK. She took over her father's tattoo shop in Barry aged 18 in 1927 and went on to prominence whilst working in Chatham, Portsmouth and Aldershot. She returned to Barry in 1968, and continued to work there as a tattoo artist into the 1980s.