William Morris

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Standard Name: Morris, William

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Cultural formation Eva Gore-Booth
EGB came from a Protestant family but broke with that tradition in favour of many other spiritual pursuits. Biographer Gifford Lewis writes: even before her teens she had become, in Christian terms, godless and her...
Cultural formation Hannah Cullwick
To all eyes she lived as Munby's servant; she often still slept in the basement kitchen. In the evenings, however, she played the role of a lady wife, sitting with Munby in the parlour, conversing...
Cultural formation H. D.
HD's interest in spiritualism is perhaps traceable to her Moravian background as well as to the yogi books given to her by Ezra Pound when she was a teenager. During the Second World War she...
Education Sylvia Pankhurst
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...
Education Mary Agnes Hamilton
During her studies at Cambridge, MAH met Lady Burne-Jones , who read to her from the letters of her husband Edward Burne-Jones and of William Morris as well as the poetry of Morris . She...
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, 1912, x, 416 pp.
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Again her memoirs lovingly enumerate the names of her teachers, fellow-students (divided...
Education H. D.
Following her withdrawal from Bryn Mawr, HD (with Pound 's assistance) embarked on an intensive independent study programme that lasted for five years. During this period she read and studied writers such as William Morris
Family and Intimate relationships Katharine Bruce Glasier
KBG was devastated by her husband's death, but later she began to experience visions of his continuing presence (as she did of her son's presence after he too died).
Kelly, Gary, and Edd Applegate, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 190. Gale Research, 1998.
190:125
Glasier, Katharine Bruce. The Glen Book. London.
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John Bruce Glasier had...
Family and Intimate relationships Florence Farr
FF is now probably best remembered for her personal and professional relationships with two literary men, Bernard Shaw and W. B. Yeats . It seems that she met Shaw at William Morris 's house in...
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...
Friends, Associates Annie Besant
AB 's interest in socialism led her to friendship with William Morris , and she became a vistor at Kelmscott House, where she often stayed to dinner.
Taylor, Anne, 1932 -. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1992.
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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, 2007, pp. 876-7.
876
He taught her Russian, pushed her to continue writing, and was the first to introduce her...
Friends, Associates Emmeline Pankhurst
Among those gathering at the Pankhursts' Russell Square salon were William Morris , Annie Besant , Keir Hardie , Tom Mann , and Elizabeth Cady Stanton .
Mitchell, David J. The Fighting Pankhursts: A Study in Tenacity. MacMillan, 1967.
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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 ,...

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.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
133-4

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.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
2: 724
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
2: 725
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
2: 723-5, 729

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.
Hartman, Mary S. Victorian Murderesses. Schocken Books, 1977.
52-4, 82-3

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.
Henderson, Philip. William Morris: His Life, Work, and Friends. Thames and Hudson, 1967.
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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.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 131
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
304, 671

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).
Cumming, Elizabeth, and Wendy Kaplan. The Arts and Crafts Movement. Thames and Hudson, 1991.
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Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Virago, 1989.
118
Weinreb, Ben, and Christopher Hibbert, editors. The London Encyclopaedia. Macmillan, 1983.

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.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(30 March 1888): 8

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.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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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.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 123-4

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.
Spartacus Educational. 28 Feb. 2003, http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/.

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.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

1889: William Morris published his prose romance...

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1889

William Morris published his prose romance A Tale of the House of the Wolfings.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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January-October 1890: William Morris published News from Nowhere...

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January-October 1890

William Morris published News from Nowhere in Commonweal.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.

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 .
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Texts

Morris, William, and Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones. A Dream of John Ball. Reeves and Turner, 1888.
Morris, William. A Tale of the House of the Wolfings. Reeves and Turner, 1889.
Morris, William. Chants for Socialists. Reeves, 1883.
Morris, William et al., editors. Commonweal. Socialist League.
Morris, William. News from Nowhere. Reeves and Turner, 1891.
Morris, William. Poems by the Way. Kelmscott Press, 1891.
Morris, William. The Defence of Guenevere, and Other Poems. Bell and Daldy, 1858.
Morris, William. The Earthly Paradise. F. S. Ellis, 1870, 3 vols.