William Morris

FMR shared to the full the social involvement of her family with entertaining leading figures in London cultural life: such men as John Singer Sargent , Robert Browning , William Morris , and Oscar Wilde

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

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

SP grew up amidst the political discussions of her parents' home. An intimate friend, politician Keir Hardie , later remarked of this informal education: So that is what is the matter with you! You heard...

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...

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 .

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.

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

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

VL was at this time a guest of Mary Robinson and her family. She combined her connections with theirs in order to meet a number of major cultural figures: Sir Leslie Stephen , Robert Browning

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...

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 .

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

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.