Dawn Tinsley her friendship with Tim. When Dawn receives a Christmas present from Tim (some paints with the note 'never give up' written on the sketch that Dawn had drawn for him earlier that day) encouraging her to hold on to her ambition of becoming an illustrator, she leaves Lee and returns to the Christmas party, where she and Tim kiss and finally become a couple. Dawn Tinsley Dawn Tinsley is a fictional character in the BBC sitcom "The Office", played by Lucy Davis. She is a receptionist for paper merchants Wernham Hogg and was originally engaged to warehouse worker Lee. Her
Workers in the Dawn in the Dawn" was completed in about a year, and is the longest of Gissing's novels, with over 280,000 words across three volumes. The completion of the work was largely the result of encouragement and support from his friend Eduard Bertz. Writing to a friend in Germany, Bertz described himself as "in a way...the begetter of the book". The novel is partly based on Gissing's own experiences of an unhappy marriage, to his first wife Marianne Helen Harrison. As well as this semi-autobiographical element, Gissing intended the book to have a social message. In a letter to his brother Algernon