William Morris

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Standard Name: Morris, William

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Intertextuality and Influence Charlotte Yonge
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...
Intertextuality and Influence Dorothy Whipple
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...
Reception Evelyn Waugh
The Times Literary Supplement review by Thomas Sturge Moore , though prominent and lengthy, was more an essay on Rossetti than a review of the book in question, and was in any case not complimentary...
Friends, Associates Ethel Lilian Voynich
Stepniak and his work, including Underground Russia, 1883, were influential in ELV 's personal life and career.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Gray, Anne, and Pam Blevins. The World of Women in Classical Music. WordWorld Publications, pp. 876-7.
876
He taught her Russian, pushed her to continue writing, and was the first to introduce her...
Friends, Associates Katharine Tynan
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
Friends, Associates Susan Tweedsmuir
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 ,...
Literary responses Charlotte Maria Tucker
The Athenæum proclaimed, a more entertaining and salutary story for merry, scatter-brained, careless children has rarely been put on paper.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1843 (1863): 261
The Dictionary of Literary Biography places this among CMT 's charming and...
Friends, Associates Algernon Charles Swinburne
After leaving Eton , he met Lady Pauline and Walter Trevelyan , who became longtime friends and supporters. At Oxford he was first introduced to the Pre-Raphaelites , and he forged friendships with Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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...
Education Constance Smedley
After this she became a star student
Brockington, Grace. “&A World Fellowship&: The Founding of the International Lyceum Club for Women Artists and Writers”. Lyceum Club.
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at the Birmingham School of Art, an even more exciting arena for adventure.
Smedley, Constance, and Maxwell Armfield. Crusaders. Chatto & Windus.
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Again her memoirs lovingly enumerate the names of her teachers, fellow-students (divided...
Intertextuality and Influence Constance Smedley
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...
Friends, Associates Edith J. Simcox
Her connection with George Eliot and her own political activities brought EJS into friendly association with a number of key social figures including William Morris , Eliza Orme , and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson .
Fulmer, Constance M. et al. “Preface, Introduction and Editorial Materials”. A Monument to the Memory of George Eliot, Garland, pp. xi - xvii, 1.
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Fulmer, Constance M. “A Nineteenth Century ’Womanist’ on Gender Issues: Edith Simcox in her <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Autobiography of a Shirtmaker</span&gt”;. Nineteenth Century Prose, Vol.
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, No. 2, pp. 110-26.
115
Intertextuality and Influence Lady Margaret Sackville
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...
Literary responses Christina Rossetti
CR 's critical reputation stood very high from the appearance of Goblin Market, although she was not a popular poet. H. Buxton Forman in Our Living Poets, 1871, got her middle name wrong...
Family and Intimate relationships Dante Gabriel Rossetti
DGR met the woman who became known professionally as Fanny Cornforth in 1856, when she began to sit for him for paintings including an unfinished study of a fallen woman or prostitute entitled Found...

Timeline

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: 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.

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.

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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