Founded in New York in 1971 as an affiliate of the UK William Morris Society, the William Morris Society in the United States strives to publicize the life and work of William Morris and his associates. We coordinate our activities with our fellow Morris Societies in the UK and Canada, and distribute UK and US Newsletters and a biannual Journal of William Morris Studies.

Call for Papers:

UK Conference to be held in the Coach House, Kelmscott House, London, UK, 10 a. m.-4:30 p. m. Saturday 14 September 2013: Social Fabrics: Utopias and Dystopias in the Work of William Morris and H. G. Wells. Send abstracts of 500 words by 15 May 2013 to emelynegodfrey@yahoo.com, curator@williammorrissociety.org.uk, j.parrinder064@btinternet.com and sylviahardy@btinternet.com.

Guild of St. George Event: "No Wealth But Life: Why John Ruskin Matters Today."

Join the William Morris Society of Canada in an Arts and Crafts Tour of Southern England May/June 2013: Click for brochure and registration

Video highlight from the Tate Britain featuring an embroidered ladybug detail on William Morris's bed. The was on display as part of the Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde exhibition.

Digital Independent Morris-Inspired Press:

The Kelmsgarth Press
First Publication: William Morris: The Blog by Tony Pinkney

New Illustrated Edition of News from Nowhere

New Blog by WMS Award Winner: The Morrisian

Modern Language Association 9-12 January 2014, Chicago, Illinois

The William Morris Society will sponsor a panel on "Morris, the Arts, and the Midwest," to be moderated by Jason Martinek. The talks will be:

Barbara Johnson, State of South Dakota Humanities Scholar, “Morris Stained Glass in Chicago”
Sandi Wisenberg, Co-Director, School of Continuing Studies, Northwestern University, “The Politics of the Glessner House”
Elizabeth G. Browning, University of California-Davis, “Hull House and the Arts and Crafts Movement”
Florence Boos, University of Iowa, "Oscar Triggs, the Arts, and the First Chicago Morris Society 1903-1905."

Information on the time and place will be available in June 2013. For guest passes, please write ecmille1@gmail.com

Proposed panel: We have applied for a second co-sponsored panel on "Pre-Raphaelite and Fin de Siecle Children's Literature." More information will be available on this by June 2013.

Call for Papers Modern Language Association 8-11 January 2015, Vancouver, British Columbia.

The William Morris Society will sponsor a panel on "William Morris: The Ecological and the Oceanic."  For this we seek papers on Morris and ecological concerns, the environment, and ‘green’ politics, and/or oceanic journeys, Morris’s influence in Asia and Oceania, or trans-Pacific approaches to Morris studies.

Please send abstracts for proposals by 15 March 2014 to florence-boos@uiowa.edu

Pre-Raphaelites and the Book
February 17 – August 04, 2013, National Gallery of Art, Washington. West Building Ground Floor.

Organized to complement Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Art and Design, 1848–1900, this installation includes books of poetry by Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris, wood-engraved illustrations by several Pre-Raphaelite artists, and material related to the Kelmscott Press (established by Morris in 1891). Beautifully illustrated books from this press are displayed alongside Morris' elaborate ornament designs and his own manuscript illumination inspired by medieval tomes. Featured works are from the National Gallery of Art Library and the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, on loan to the University of Delaware Library.

How We Might Live: The Vision of William Morris
September 2012-July 2013, Special Collections, Hornbake Library, University of Maryland, College Park, MD

Coming in 2014…

Book sale to benefit the William Morris Society in the United States
LIST OF BOOKS BY AND ABOUT WILLIAM MORRIS [pdf]

Newly published! The Collected Letters of Jane Morris edited by Jan Marsh and Frank Sharp Boydell and Brewer, 2012
Morris-related Book: Slow Print: Literary Radicalism and Late Victorian Print Culture. Stanford, 2012.
The Multifaceted Mr. Morris: A Record of the Exhibition in the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, University of Delaware Library, 1–30 October 2010 Jane Marguerite Tippett Lead Graffiti, 2012
The Kelmscott Chaucer: A Census William S. Peterson and Sylvia Holton Peterson Oak Knoll Press, 2011
A History of Kelmscott House Helen Elletson William Morris Society, London, 2011
Illustrated Edition of the Works of William Morris in English, Robert L. M. Coupe Second edition Published by the author, 2011 rlmcoupe@shaw.ca
Socialist Aesthetics and "The Shadows of Amiens" Florence S. Boos William Morris Society: London, 2011