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    The Life of William Morris

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    This biography was undertaken by me at the special request of Sir Edward Burne-Jones. I will not attempt to say how much it owes to his guidance and encouragement, nor how much it has lost by their removal.

    When the task of writing the life of Morris was placed in my hands, his family and representatives gave me unreserved access to all the materials in their possession. To them, and more especially to his executors, Mr. F.S. Ellis and Mr. S.C. Cockerell, I owe my best thanks for their friendly help. inom am further indebted to Mr. Ellis for the index at the end of the book.

    Among the few survivors of Morris's earliest friends, I must express very special obligations to Mr. Cormell Price for generous and ungrudging assistance, and to the Rev. Canon R.W. Dixon. For information as to later years I am greatly indebted to Mr. Philip Webb, Mr. George Wardle, Mr. C. Fairfax Murray, Mr. William De Morgan, and Mr. Emery Walker, who were all long a

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    William Morris

    English textile artist, author, and socialist (–)

    For other people named William Morris, see William Morris (disambiguation).

    William Morris (24 March &#;– 3 October ) was an English textile designer, poet, artist,[1] writer, and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts movement. He was a major contributor to the revival of traditional British textile arts and methods of production. His literary contributions helped to establish the modern fantasy genre, while he helped win acceptance of socialism in fin de siècle Great Britain.

    Morris was born in Walthamstow, Essex, to a wealthy middle-class family. He came under the strong influence of medievalism while studying classics at Oxford University, where he joined the Birmingham Set. After university, he married Jane Burden, and developed close friendships with Pre-Raphaelite artists Edward Burne-Jones and poet Gabriel Rossetti and with Neo-Gothic architect Philip Webb. Webb and

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    The Life of William Morris

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    On the western banks of the Mississippi River, southwest of Baton Rouge and northwest of New Orleans, stands a stunning and truly awe-inspiring Greek and Italianate style “White Castle”. This is Nottoway Plantation, the South’s largest antebellum mansion, and now a resort. Completed in , when William Morris was Relating to Morris' age is easy since this massive biography ( The Life of William Morris Volume 1 & The Life of William Morris; Volume 2 ) in one volume ) includes the year and his age at the top of every page; a feature every such thorough life story should have. It does this with the grapheme Æ, short for "ætate" ("at the age of"). This quaint if helpful antique feature is also a symptom of the antiquity of the typesetting. I think modern readers will find this a plow to get through, physically, because of that and such features as the ligature for ct, etc.


    Anyway, a few years back I stayed at Nottoway and enjoyed very much their