Books to Read & Buy
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ON PEOPLE:
Kelvin, Norman
(ed) The Collected Letters of
William Morris, 3 vols, (Princeton, 1984-99)
MacCarthy,
Fiona William
Morris; A Life for our time (London, 1994)
MacKoil, J.W.
The Life of William Morris, 2 vols. (London, 1899)
Morris,
May
The Introductions to the Collected Works of William Morris,
(New York,1973)
Rodgers,
David
William Morris at Home (London, 1996)
Thompson, E.P.
William Morris, Romantic to Revolutionary (London 1976)
Burne-Jones,
G
Memorial of Edward Burne-Jones, 2 vols. (London, 1904)
Fitzgerald,
Penelope Edward Burne-Jones, A
Biography (London, 1975)
Doughty,
Oswald Victorian
Romantic, Dante Gabriel Rossetti (London, 1999)
Marsh,
Jan
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Painter and Poet (London, 1999)
Bryson, J
(ed)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Jane Morris, their
correspondence (Oxford,
1976)
Marsh,
Jane
Jane and May Morris (London, 1986)
Baker, Derek
The Flowers of William Morris, (London, 1996)
ON ART, CRAFT AND ARCHITECTURE
Harvey, C and Press,
J William Morris, Design and enterprise in Victorian
Britain (Manchester, 1991)
Hollamby,
Edward Red
House in Arts and Crafts Houses 1 (London, 2000)
Jill, Duchess of Hamilton et
al, The Gardens of William Morris (London, 1998)
Parry,
Linda
William Morris Textiles (London, 1983)
Peterson
William The
Kelmscott Press (Oxford, 1993)
Seuter, A.C.
The Stained Glass of William Morris and his circle, 2 vols. (Yale,
1974)
Thompson,
Paul
The Work of William Morris (London, 1967)
Tinniswood, Adrian
The Arts & Crafts House (London, 1999)
Watkinson,
Raymond William Morris as Designer (London,
1967
PLACES TO VISIT
The
William Morris Gallery: Water House, Lloyd Park, Forest
Road, Walthamstow
(This is an excellent small gallery that was once the home for Morris's
family)
Kelmscott
Manor, Kelmscott, near
Lechlade, Gloucestershire
(Morris's favourite house that he at one time leased with Rossetti)
Kelmscott
House, 26 Upper Mall,
Hammersmith, London
(The house where William
Morris and his family lived for the last part of his life and the base for the
William Morris Society)
Standen:
East Grinstead, East Sussex
(Now a National Trust property, this is the most famous of Philip
Webb's houses)
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