The Life of William Morris


Articles on Morris's life from the Journal of William Morris Studies, 1961-2001

Morris's Early Life to 1870
Morris's Later Life, 1871-1896
After 1896: Morris Family in Later Years, His Associates and Influence


Morris's Early Life to 1870 (some overlap with the next section)

"Morris and the 'Kingsley Movement.'" Elizabeth Brewer, JWMS 4.2 (Summer 1980): 4-17.

"William Morris and the Paris Prefécture." Jan Cohn, JWMS 4.2 (Summer 1980): 20-23.

"Where Janey Used to Live." Margaret Fleming, JWMS 4.4 (Winter 1981): 2-17.

"First Appearance of 'The Firm.'" JWMS 5.3 (Summer 1983): 42 [reprint from London Society, 1862].

"William Morris and Young England." Carolyn Collette, JWMS 5.4 (Winter 1983-84): 5-15.

"Cormell Price Esq., The Tower, Broadway." Lorraine Price, JWMS 5.4 (Winter 1983-84): 30-39.

"'On the Quays of Havre': Some Notes on Morris's Walking Tour in France, July to August 1855." John Purkis, JWMS 6.3 (Summer 1985): 23-25.

Extract from Fred E. Cobb's diary describing a visit to one of the Devon Great Consol Mines in 1866. JWMS 7.1 (Autumn 1986): [40].

"William Morris, Warington Taylor and the Firm, 1865-1875." Jon Press and Charles Harvey, JWMS 7.1 (Autumn 1986): 41-44.

"The 'First' William Morris and the 39 Articles." Eugene D. Le Mire, JWMS 7.2 (Spring 1987): 9-14.

"The Defence of Janey." Jan Marsh, JWMS 7.3 (Autumn 1987): 18-22.

"William Morris: Biographical Gleanings 1865-1875." Susan Mooney, JWMS 8.3 (Autumn 1989): 2-12.

"The City and Mining Enterprise: The Making of the Morris Family Fortune." Charles Harvey and Jon Press, JWMS 9.1 (Autumn 1990): 3-14.

"William Morris's Childhood and Schooling." Linda Richardson, JWMS 9.1 (Autumn 1990): 15-19.

"Morris and Music." Lesley A. Baker, JWMS 10.3 (Autumn 1993): 6-9.

"Isabella Morris Gilmore." Frank C. Sharp, JWMS 11.4 (Spring 1996): 31-38.

"Peter Paul Marshall: The Forgotten Member of the Morris Firm." Keith E. Gibeling, JWMS 12.1 (Autumn 1996): 8-16.

"The Earliest Agreement between the Partners of Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co." Frank C. Sharp, JWMS 12.3 (Autumn 1997): 15-16.

"A Friendship From Heaven: Burne-Jones and William Morris." Nicholas Salmon, JWMS 13.1 (Autumn 1998): 2-13.

"Burne-Jones, Morris and God." Christine Poulson, JWMS 13.1 (Autumn 1998): 45-54.

"Thomas Morris, Resident Director of the Devon Great Consols." Jackie Latham, JWMS 14.3 (Winter 2001): 41-46.

"A Rediscovered and Partly Unpublished Morris Notebook." Chris Fletcher, JWMS 14.3 (Winter 2001): 12-20.

Morris's Later Life, 1871-1896

"Morris and Bernard Shaw." E. E. Stokes Jr., JWMS 1.1 (Winter 1961): 13-18.

"Morris's Reply to Whistler." E. D. Le Mire, JWMS 1.3 (Summer 1963): [2]-10.

"Letters to Janey." R. C. H. Briggs, JWMS 1.4 (Summer 1964): 2-22.

"Kelmscott to Kelmscott." Violet Hunt (edited by Lady Mander), JWMS 2.3 (Winter 1968): 6-17.

"Edmund New's Diary of a Visit to Kelmscott Manor." David Cox, JWMS 3.1 (Spring 1974): 3-7.

"Morris and Cobden-Sanderson." John Randle, JWMS 3.1 (Spring 1974): 22-26.

"The Expedition of The Ark." J. M. Baïssus, JWMS 3.3 (Spring 1977): 2-11.

"The Death of Topsy." Philip Henderson, JWMS 4.1 (Winter 1979): 28-31.

"Memories of Morris & Co." Edward Payne, JWMS 4.3 (Summer 1981):2-6.

"Morris and the Blunts." Geoffrey Syer, JWMS 4.4 (Winter 1981): 18-22.

"The Morris Family Remembered." Teresa A. Lock, JWMS 5.1 (Summer 1982): 9-15.

"Morris at the Theatre." JWMS 5.3 (Summer 1983): 42 [reprint from the Athenaeum, 1889].

"The Morris and Co. Showroom." JWMS 5.4 (Winter 1983-84): 67-68. [reprint from Building News, 11 June 1880].

"A Glimpse of Morris at Work." JWMS 5.4 (Winter 1983-84): 68 [reminiscence by the grandmother of Rupert Shephard].

"Rum and Indescribable . . ." JWMS 5.4 (Winter 1983-84): 69 [three of Burne-Jones's caricatures of Morris].

"Iceland and Kelmscott." Lesley A. Baker, JWMS 6.2 (Winter 1984-85): 4-9.

"Lady Anne Blunt's Meeting with William Morris." Peter Faulkner, JWMS 6.2 (Winter 1984-85): 33.

"A Reminiscence of William Morris." W., JWMS 6.2 (Winter 1984-85): 35.

"Free Speech in London." JWMS 6.3 (Summer 1985): 31 [minutes of a meeting of the Metropolitan Radical Federation, 1886].

"Memories." Luke Ionides, JWMS 7.4 (Spring 1988): 27-28 [reprint from Transatlantic Review, 1926].

"Icelandic Obituaries of William Morris." Ruth Ellison, JWMS 8.1 (Autumn 1988): 35-41.

"Morris and the Working Men's College." Peter Faulkner, JWMS 8.3 (Autumn 1989): 24-28.

"The Stillmans and the Morrises." Philip Attwood, JWMS 9.1 (Autumn 1990): 23-28.

"Morris & Co. in Manchester." Nicholas Salmon and David Taylor, JWMS 12.3 (Autumn 1997): 17-19.

"Merton before Morris." Ray Watkinson, JWMS 9.4 (Spring 1992): 25-28.

"William Morris, Philip Webb and 'Mark Rutherford.'" Sally Ledger, JWMS 10.1 (Autumn 1992): 14-20.

"William Morris and the National Curriculum." Ann and John Kay, JWMS 11.1 (Autumn 1994): 44-58.

"Reminiscences of Cotswold Craftsmen." Jim Mackenzie, JWMS 11.2 (Spring 1995): 27-31.

"Working for Morris & Co." Arthur Frederick Wingate, JWMS 11.2 (Spring 1995): 31-32.

"Dark Days in Hammersmith: Lily Yeats and the Morrises." Peter Faulkner, JWMS 11.3 (Autumn 1995): 22-25.

"Gustav Holst, William Morris and the Socialist Movement." Andrew Heywood, JWMS 11.4 (Spring 1996): 39-47.

"Another Visit to Merton Abbey." Jan Marsh, JWMS 12.1 (Autumn 1996): 5-7.

"Georgiana Burne-Jones and William Morris: A Subtle Influence." Isabelle Williams, JWMS 12.1 (Autumn 1996): 17-24.

"'Compulsory Baxination': Morris and the Misogynist." Roger Aldous, JWMS 12.1 (Autumn 1996): 35-40.

"Reminiscences of William Morris." Edmund & Ruth Frow, JWMS 12.2 (Spring 1997): 5-6 [includes reminiscences of Sophie R. Sharman from Comrade, Feb. 1903].

"A Meeting with William Morris." Helen Thomas, JWMS 12.3 (Autumn 1997): 2-4 [reprint from Time & Again: Memoirs and Letters].

"MacDonald, Morris and 'The Retreat.'" Nicholas Salmon, JWMS 12.3 (Autumn 1997): 5-10.

"Morris & Co. in Manchester." Nicholas Salmon and David Taylor, JWMS 12.3 (Autumn 1997): 17-19.

"'Rupes Topseia': A New Suggestion." Jan Marsh, JWMS 12.4 (Spring 1998): 4-6.

"William Morris and Emma Lazarus." Frank C. Sharp, JWMS 13.3 (Autumn 1999): 6-13.

"Burne-Jones and the Dissolution of Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co." David Elliott, 4 JWMS 14.3 (Winter 2001): 7-48.

"William Morris: The Final Socialist Years." Nicholas Salmon, JWMS 14.4 (Summer 2002): 12-24.

"William Morris and Oscar Wilde." Peter Faulkner, JWMS 14.4 (Summer 2002): 25-40.

 

After 1896: Morris Family in Later Years, His Associates and Influence

 

"Memories of May Morris 1923-1938." Una Fielding, JWMS 2.3 (Winter 1968): 2-5.

"A Visit to May Morris, 1925." Elfrida Manning, JWMS 4.2 (Summer 1980): 18-19.

"A Visit to May Morris." Margaret Horton, JWMS 5.2 (Winter 1982): 14-19.

"My Memories of Kelmscott." Marjorie Breakspear, JWMS 5.3 (Summer 1983): 8-15.

"May Morris and Miss Lobb in Iceland." Gudrun Jonsdottir, JWMS 7.1 (Autumn 1986): 17-20.

"Murry, Marx and Morris." Peter Faulkner, JWMS 12.4 (Spring 1998): 7-14.

"Ethel Mannin and William Morris." Peter Faulkner, JWMS 13. 2 (Spring 1999): 21-27.


Other Sides of William Morris

For a list of additional articles about other aspects of William Morris, please see our other portals:

  • ART: Morris's visual designs, including book design, calligraphy, furniture, decorative arts, paintings, drawings, stained glass, tapestries, textiles, and wallpapers.
  • WRITING: Morris's literary output, including poetry and fiction.
  • SOCIAL THOUGHT: Although it is properly a sub-set of Morris's writings, his ideas on Socialism form a distinct and important part of the impact he had on his own society (as well as on our own today).

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