Jan Morris
Standard Name: Morris, Jan
Birth Name: James Humphry Morris
Indexed Name: James Morris
Styled: Jan Trefan
In the 1950s and 60s Morris was one of the most successful young British journalists, famous especially for an account of the conquest of Mount Everest. Identifying as a woman by 1972, Morris was already making a name as a travel writer, celebrating particularly the life of cities, a commentator delineating the political cross-currents of the Middle East, and a historian, especially of the British Empire. During the later phases of her career she consolidated her reputation for travel writing and also made her mark as a memoirist and experimented with fiction.
Timeline
Texts
Morris, Jan. A Writer’s House in Wales. National Geographic, 2002.
Morris, Jan. As I Saw the U. S. A. Pantheon, 1956.
Morris, Jan. Cities. Faber and Faber, 1963.
Morris, Jan. Coast to Coast. Faber, 1956.
Morris, Jan. Conundrum. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich , 1974.
Morris, Jan. Coronation Everest. Faber and Faber, 1958.
Morris, Jan. Farewell the Trumpets. Faber and Faber, 1978.
Morris, Jan. Fifty Years of Europe. 1st American, Villard, 1997.
Morris, Jan. Heaven’s Command. Faber and Faber, 1973.
Morris, Jan. Last Letters from Hav. Viking, 1985.
Morris, Jan. Manhattan ’45. Faber and Faber, 1987.
Morris, Jan. Our First Leader. Gomer Press, 2000.
Morris, Jan. Oxford. Faber and Faber, 1965.
Morris, Jan. Pax Britannica. Faber and Faber, 1968.
Morris, Jan. Pleasures of a Tangled Life. Barrie and Jenkins, 1989.
Morris, Jan. Sultan in Oman. Faber and Faber, 1957.
Morris, Jan. The Great Port. Harcourt, Brace and World, 1969.
Morris, Jan. The Hashemite Kings. Faber and Faber, 1959.
Morris, Jan. The Market of Seleukia. Faber and Faber, 1957.
Morris, Jan, editor. The Oxford Book of Oxford. Oxford University Press, 1978.
Morris, Jan. The Princeship of Wales. Gomer Press / Gwasg Gomer, 1995.
Morris, Jan, editor. Travels with Virginia Woolf. Hogarth Press, 1993.
Morris, Jan. Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere. Faber and Faber, 2001.
Morris, Jan. Venice. Faber and Faber, 1960.
Morris, Jan. Wales: The Matter of Wales. Oxford University Press, 1984.