William Morris

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Standard Name: Morris, William

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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...
Literary responses Lady Charlotte Elliot
In 1880 Theodore Watts described this volume as unequal, and noted that the poet was later inclined to disparage her initial publication.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2726 (1880): 124
Watts, writing after Elliot's death, judged that The Pythoness...
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...
Occupation Sylvia Pankhurst
SP made very little money from artistic commissions, but devoted her talents in visual art to the Women's Social and Political Union . She designed the cover of Votes for Women. Other artistic contributions...
Occupation Walter Pater
While at Brasenose , he wrote three anonymous essays for the Westminster Review: Coleridge 's Writings, Winckelmann, and The Poetry of William Morris. All three were attacked, says scholar Laurel Brake
politics Annie Besant
She was one of the key figures urging the protest to go ahead despite the order against public processions. It took place on 13 November. When the protesters arrived at Trafalgar Square, they faced...
Publishing Edna St Vincent Millay
In 1924 Frederic and Bertha Goudy printed a limited edition of the title-poem Renascence at their Village Press , using the very hand press that William Morris had used for the Kelmscott Chaucer .
Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House, 2001.
320
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Publishing Jane Francesca Lady Wilde
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 .
Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar. John Murray, 1999.
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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 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...
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
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...
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 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 Muriel Jaeger
MJ 's introduction says that the world of this novel is a Bellamy-Morris-Wells world.
qtd. in
Stratton, Susan. “Muriel Jaegers The Question Mark, a Response to Bellamy and Wells”. Foundation, No. 80, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 2000, pp. 62-9.
65
William Morris wrote socialist utopias; Edward Bellamy 's Looking Backward, 1888, features time-travel to a future utopia, while H. G. Wells

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