The Red House in Bexley, England. Designed by Philip Webb for William Morris. Includes photographs, bibliography, visitor information with online booking, and Friends of the Red House membership information.
Biography from Spartacus Educational about the life and work of William Morris. Covers his Arts and Crafts work, and his Socialist reforms ideas.
Morris under the influence of John Ruskin developed into a socialist, and environmentalist, while at the same time he built a furniture and household goods company that was firmly entrenched in Victorian England. His decorative art and furniture design is still prized today. From History Today.
Article from the University of Toledo about the birth of the arts and crafts movement, whose primary proponents were William Morris and Jogn Ruskin.
Images selected from the National Monuments Record to commemorate the centenary of William Morris's death in 1896. They include views of some of the houses inhabited by Morris and his family as well as images of work produced by Morris and Company. With notes on the pictures.
Biography of the English poet, artist, and socialist reformer, from Microsoft Encarta.
Company founded as a direct result of the design, decoration, and furnishing of the Morris's new home, Red House (situated in what is now a South London suburb) by a group including Morris himself and a number of his friends and associates. From The Victorian Web.
A short piece from the Victorian Web by George P. Landow, Professor of English and Art History, Brown University.
Biography from The Victorian Web by David Cody, associate professor of English, Hartwick College.
Notes on William Morris, especially relating to his activities as an artist and illustrator and his relations with the arts and crafts and with the Pre-Raphaelites. From Bob Speel.
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