William Morris

ST 's parents made connections through friendship as remarkable as those made for them by family descent. Her mother was a friend of many writers and intellectuals of both sexes, including Marie Belloc Lowndes ,...

Among those who frequented KT 's salon were George Russell (Æ), Irish Nationalist and Fenian leader John O'Leary , Gaelic scholar and revivalist Douglas Hyde (founder of the Gaelic League , 1893), and George Sigerson

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...

Stepniak and his work, including Underground Russia, 1883, were influential in ELV 's personal life and career. He taught her Russian, pushed her to continue writing, and was the first to introduce her...

AB 's interest in socialism led her to friendship with William Morris , and she became a vistor at Kelmscott House, where she often stayed to dinner.

Among those gathering at the Pankhursts' Russell Square salon were William Morris , Annie Besant , Keir Hardie , Tom Mann , and Elizabeth Cady Stanton .

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

This was one of the most popular novels of the nineteenth century. Two years after it appeared it was the favourite choice of young officers in hospital during the Crimean War. A guardsman confessed that...

LMS 's earliest works, which emerged from a romantic sense of beauty, defined her for decades of readers. In the first phase of her writing career, from 1900 to about 1915, she sought the delicate...

Jessica and her younger brother, Edgar, both respond with ecstasy to an offer to borrow books they have not already read (William Morris , William Blake , [a]nd people I don't know; and books...

Gardam's The Hollow Land (addressed to an older age-group) has an epigraph from the prose romance by William Morris which bears the same title. The land in her book is the Cumbrian fells, full...

EM mentions spending her earlier years, whilst I was still serious, reading Graham Wallace , John Stuart Mill , William Morris , Cunninghame Graham , and Upton Sinclair .

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

This novel's opening is a prime example of DW 's skill at hooking her readers. She opens with the ancient gateway of the house standing in darkness, illuminated every few minutes by the flash of...

These tastes leaned to the pre-Raphaelite, with Morris hangings and photogravures after Burne-Jones and Watts . The house was also inhabited by a Persian cat and a fox-terrier; the two animals hated each other.