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Jane Morris. Relatives. Jenny Morris (sister) Mary "May" Morris (25 March 1862 – 17 October 1938) was an English artisan, embroidery designer, jeweller, socialist, and editor. She was the younger daughter of the Pre-Raphaelite artist and designer William Morris and his wife and artists' model, Jane Morris (née Burden).
- Arts and Crafts movement, British Socialism
- Jenny Morris (sister)
Sep 19, 2017 · Born in 1862, just when her father launched the business that would become Morris & Co, with its trademarked fabrics, wallpapers and stained glass, May followed her mother Jane, the renowned Pre-Raphaelite model, into the fine craft of embroidery. This period saw a reaction against the machine age, with a revalorisation of traditionally hand ...
Mar 26, 2024 · William Morris looms large in British literary history, for his own writing, his politics, and his radical impact on others. His birth on 24 March 1834 was followed exactly 28 years and 1 day later by that of his second daughter, Mary “May” Morris on 25 March 1862.
Dec 24, 2021 · The sprawling factories and increasing rural poverty spurred May Morris’s father, William Morris (1834–1896), and others to believe that medieval Britain offered a better model. Morris and his friends dreamed of a return to a time when independent craft workers designed the things they made by hand and families had homes with space to grow ...
Apr 24, 2015 · Unsung Artists : May Morris (1862-1938) Sarah Beattie. April 24, 2015. One of the best things about working on the Factory project is the range of different artists and designers that we come across while cataloguing. The V&A’s collection of works on paper is huge (741,000 objects and counting!) and amongst the famous names like Constable and ...
Dec 7, 2021 · Immersed in the world of British design practically from birth, May Morris not only grew to run the embroidery studio of her family’s famous business but also pursued her own endeavors: as a designer, teacher, lecturer, and activist. The family business was the home furnishings empire Morris & Co., founded by her father, William Morris (1834 ...
Sep 29, 2017 · The younger of William Morris’s two daughters by his beautiful pre-Raphaelite model wife Jane, May was no one’s idea of a shrinking violet. A recently discovered diary from 1870, written when ...
