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Known for. Arts and Crafts movement. Parent (s) William Morris. Jane Morris. Relatives. May Morris (sister) Jane Alice (Jenny) Morris (17 January 1861 – 11 July 1935) was an embroiderer. She was the elder daughter of William Morris and Jane Morris and sister to May Morris.
Jane Alice ('Jenny') Morris. (1861-1935), Daughter of William Morris. Sitter in 21 portraits. William and Jane Morris 's elder daughter was always known simply as Jenny. Educated at Notting Hill High School, she seemed destined for one of the new women's colleges; but after developing acute epilepsy was incapacitated for the rest of her life ...
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Jane Morris (née Burden; 19 October 1839 – 26 January 1914) was an English embroiderer in the Arts and Crafts movement and an artists' model who embodied the Pre-Raphaelite ideal of beauty. She was a model and muse to her husband William Morris and to Dante Gabriel Rossetti . [1]
Jane Alice (`Jenny') Morris was born at the Red House. Morris named her Alice after his younger sister. She was - at a later date - christened at Bexley Church in Kent. A celebration dinner was held after the christening at the Red House which was attended by amongst others… Read More
Jun 16, 2022 · Born in Oxford in 1839, Jane Burden was the daughter of an illiterate domestic servant and a stable hand. (A blue plaque erected by the William Morris Society now marks the place of her birth in St Helen’s Passage, commemorating her as “Pre-Raphaelite Muse and Embroiderer.”) She seemed destined for a life of wearying hardship and ...
Apr 30, 2013 · Abstract. Jane Morris, the wife of William Morris and the muse of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, became the most identifiable face of Pre-Raphaelite art but has received little scholarly attention in her own right. This book argues that the enduring myth of Jane Morris – as a passive invalid, femme fatale and melancholy beauty – has derived from ...
Meanwhile, Morris's family continued to grow. In January 1861, Morris and Janey's first daughter was born: named Jane Alice Morris, she was commonly known as "Jenny". Jenny was followed in March 1862 by the birth of their second daughter, Mary "May" Morris.
