William Morris

Her involvement in socialist circles led her to acquaintance with Sidney and Beatrice Webb , Edward Hulton (editor of the Sunday Chronicle), and Robert Blatchford , for whom she wrote several articles. With...

The title page of the pamphlet references works by both William Morris and Walt Whitman , while the text itself paraphrases Edward Carpenter .

EGB came from a Protestant family but broke with that tradition in favour of many other spiritual pursuits. Biographer Gifford Lewis writes: even before her teens she had become, in Christian terms, godless and her...

Following her withdrawal from Bryn Mawr, HD (with Pound 's assistance) embarked on an intensive independent study programme that lasted for five years. During this period she read and studied writers such as William Morris

HD's interest in spiritualism is perhaps traceable to her Moravian background as well as to the yogi books given to her by Ezra Pound when she was a teenager. During the Second World War she...

During her studies at Cambridge, MAH met Lady Burne-Jones , who read to her from the letters of her husband Edward Burne-Jones and of William Morris as well as the poetry of Morris . She...

Distinguished guests at Newnham at this time included Ruskin and Turgenev ; JEH recalls giving them tours of the college in her Reminiscences of a Student's Life. A great admirer of George Eliot

The position of her father as a journal editor put INH in contact with several well-known authors of the time. She attended a party with her parents at the house of Dr Westland Marston ...

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...

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.

MJ 's introduction says that the world of this novel is a Bellamy-Morris-Wells world.William Morris wrote socialist utopias; Edward Bellamy 's Looking Backward, 1888, features time-travel to a future utopia, while H. G. Wells

JFLW received £25 for the rights from William Morris , and in December 1893 he signed one of three hundred copies from the new illustrated edition published by Kelmscott Press .

RK and his sister Trix spent Decembers (the Christmas holidays) with their mother's sister Lady Burne-Jones , and her husband, the painter Sir Edward Burne-Jones , at their home, The Grange, in Fulham. Here...

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...

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