William Morris

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Standard Name: Morris, William

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Travel Vernon Lee
VL was at this time a guest of Mary Robinson and her family. She combined her connections with theirs in order to meet a number of major cultural figures: Sir Leslie Stephen , Robert Browning
Theme or Topic Treated in Text A. S. Byatt
She used this work to reinforce her sense that the material and the visual are indispensable, and her interest in artists who use their hands. She revels in the obvious contrasts between her two subjects...
Textual Production Mathilde Blind
MB delivered a public address to an audience at St John's Wood in London on William Morris 's translation of the Volsunga Saga (which had been published earlier that year).
Garnett, Richard, and Mathilde Blind. “Memoir”. The Poetical Works of Mathilde Blind, edited by Arthur Symons and Arthur Symons, T. Fisher Unwin, pp. 1-43.
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Textual Production A. S. Byatt
Perhaps obeying the impulses which she had fictionalized in The Biographer's Tale, ASB published a study of two artist-craftsmen: Peacock and Vine. Fortuny and Morris in Life and at Work.
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Textual Production Henrik Ibsen
Eleanor Marx (daughter of Karl Marx ) played Nora and Aveling played Torvald. They were joined by May Morris (daughter of William Morris ) as Mrs Linde and Bernard Shaw as Krogstad.
Durbach, Errol. “A century of Ibsen criticism”. The Cambridge Companion to Ibsen, edited by James McFarlane and James McFarlane, Cambridge University Press, pp. 233-51.
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Textual Production Penelope Fitzgerald
She brought to this work her own experience as an amateur artist, and shows great skill in the delineation of character: of William Morris as well as of Burne-Jones and his wife Georgiana (who were...
Textual Production Penelope Fitzgerald
PF 's publications in the scholarly field include an edition of The Novel on Blue Paper, an unfinished, unpublished work by William Morris , 1982, and the introduction to a new issue of Oxford University Press
Textual Production Annie Besant
AB left a legacy of lectures to complement her political pamphlets. Responding to William Morris , who enquired about her lectures, she sent a list of titles such as The Unemployed, Why I am...
Textual Production L. S. Bevington
Another essay, Why I am an Expropriationist (Liberty, May 1894), was reprinted the same year, together with an essay by William Morris , in a Liberty Press pamphlet called The Why I Ams...
Textual Features Isabella Neil Harwood
The King and the Angel is INH 's attempt to dramatise a story told in Leigh Hunt 's Jar of Honey from Mount Hybla, 1848. The legend behind this story has given rise to...
Textual Features A. S. Byatt
The author at the heart of this story is a children's writer, Olive Wellwood, who is married to a wealthy banker and lives in a Kentish farmhouse strangely called Todefright. The actual Edith Nesbit ,...
Textual Features Muriel Jaeger
MJ 's introduction says that the world of this novel is a Bellamy-Morris-Wells world.
Stratton, Susan. “Muriel Jaeger’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>The Question Mark</span>, a Response to Bellamy and Wells”. Foundation, No. 80, pp. 62-9.
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William Morris wrote socialist utopias; Edward Bellamy 's Looking Backward, 1888, features time-travel to a future utopia, while H. G. Wells
Reception Anna Swanwick
In 1858 AS became one of the first female members of the Royal Institution .
The Institution, founded in 1799, calls itself on its website the oldest independent research body in the world, and has...
Reception Vernon Lee
One of the first and most appreciative readers of VL 's work was John Addington Symonds , a leading cultural historian of the time. Her book also brought her the notice and friendship of other...
Reception Vernon Lee
This book lost Lee the friendship of others who had admired her Studies of the Eighteenth Century in Italy. Broken friendships included those with Oscar Wilde (refigured as the character Posthlethwaite), Jane and William Morris

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1810-1811: The Chiswick Press was established by Charles...

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1810-1811

The Chiswick Press was established by Charles Wittingham the Elder , when he moved his printing works to Chiswick; the name stayed when the press moved back into central London.

1 January 1856: The first issue of the Oxford and Cambridge...

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1 January 1856

The first issue of the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine was published; it sold for a shilling.

22 March 1857: The death by arsenic poisoning of her lover,...

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22 March 1857

The death by arsenic poisoning of her lover, shipping clerk Emile L'Angelier , led to the prominent trial for murder of Madeleine Smith , daughter of an affluent Glasgow architect.

March 1858: William Morris published his first volume...

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March 1858

William Morris published his first volume of poetry, The Defence of Guenevere, and Other Poems.

1868: Frederick Startridge Ellis began his publishing...

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1868

Frederick Startridge Ellis began his publishing career by issuing (in a single volume) parts one and two of William Morris 's poem or series of poems The Earthly Paradise.

1872: The Royal School of Art Needlework was founded...

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1872

The Royal School of Art Needlework was founded by Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein , daughter of Queen Victoria (formerly known as Princess Helena).

1875: Arthur Lasenby Liberty opened a shop, the...

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1875

Arthur Lasenby Liberty opened a shop, the present Liberty's , at 218a Regent Street, London, and imported soft oriental fabrics, kimonos, and fans; he also persuaded British manufacturers to print oriental designs on soft...

1881: The Kyrle Society (founded by Octavia Hill...

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1881

The Kyrle Society (founded by Octavia Hill in 1877) held its first public meeting, which Emilie Barrington described some years later in a letter to The Times.

1883: Charles Henry Olive Daniel's Daniel Press...

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1883

Charles Henry Olive Daniel 's Daniel Press offered its first book for sale.

1883: William Morris published with Reeves of London...

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1883

William Morris published with Reeves of London the first of his Chants for Socialists: No 1. The Day is Coming.

December 1884: Eleanor Marx, William Morris, and Edward...

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December 1884

Eleanor Marx , William Morris , and Edward Aveling were among those who formed the Socialist League after abandoning the Social Democratic Federation in protest over H. M. Hyndman 's leadership.

November 1886-January 1887: William Morris published A Dream of John...

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November 1886-January 1887

William Morris published A Dream of John Ball in his socialist journal, Commonweal. It appeared in volume form in 1888.

1889: William Morris published his prose romance...

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1889

William Morris published his prose romanceA Tale of the House of the Wolfings.

January-October 1890: William Morris published News from Nowhere...

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January-October 1890

William Morris published News from Nowhere in Commonweal.

1891: William Morris published his collection Poems...

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1891

William Morris published his collection Poems by the Way at his own Kelmscott Press .

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