![]() A cofounder of the Socialist League, he was a committed revolutionary socialist who played a major part in the growing acceptance of Marxism and anarchism in English society. Morris also found success as a writer with such works as The Earthly Paradise (1870), News from Nowhere (1890), and The Well at the World’s End (1896). As a cofounder of Morris, Marshall, Faulkner, & Co., he was one of the Victorian era’s preeminent interior decorators and designers specializing in tapestries, wallpaper, fabrics, stained glass, and furniture. With Neo-Gothic architect Philip Webb, the founder of the Arts and Crafts movement, he designed the Red House in Bexleyheath, where he would live with his family from 1859 until moving to London in 1865. ![]() Upon graduating, he married embroiderer Jane Burden and befriended prominent Pre-Raphaelites Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The 'Nowhere' of News from Nowhere (1890) is England in 2102, an ideal pastoral society born out of revolution. ![]() Morris studied Classics at Oxford, where he was a member of the influential Birmingham Set. This volume illustrates the variety of William Morris's prose, while focusing on one theme: the earthly paradise. It first appeared in his socialist newspaper Commonweal, encouraging readers to continue the. ![]() Born in Walthamstow, Essex, he was raised in a wealthy family alongside nine siblings. This book describes Morriss vision of a better society. ![]() William Morris (1834-1896) was an English designer, poet, novelist, and socialist. ![]()
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