How We Might Live
At Home with Jane and William Morris
$23.75
- Paperback
544 pages
- Release Date
12 September 2023
Summary
William Morris - poet, designer, campaigner, hero of the Arts & Crafts movement - was a giant of the Victorian age, and his beautiful creations and provocative philosophies are still with us today: but his wife Jane is too often relegated to a footnote, an artist’s model given no history or personality of her own.
In truth, Jane and William’s personal and creative partnership was the central collaboration of both their lives. The homes they made together - the Red House, Kelmscott…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529409505 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1529409500 |
| Author: | Suzanne Fagence Cooper |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | Quercus Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 544 |
| Release Date: | 12 September 2023 |
| Weight: | 356g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 130mm x 38mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
Lyrical…enjoyable * Mail on Sunday *
Jane is fortunate in her biographer * The Times *
Well researched and extensive * BBC History Magazine *
Fascinating * The Field *
[Cooper] traces the Morrises’ shared and separate lives with clarity and judicious assessment * History Today *
Fagence Cooper succeeds, against the odds, in restoring some reality to our view of Jane Morris, giving a proper sense of a woman with striking gifts and talents identifiably her own * Literary Review *
Delightful, accessible and insightful * Church Times *
Jane Morris’s creative influence on her husband’s design empire has finally been revealed in a new book […] the first joint biography of the couple will shine a light on their personal and creative partnership, and reassert the rightful place of Jane Morris - a skilled embroiderer and talented designer - in the history books. * Guardian *
About The Author
Suzanne Fagence Cooper
Dr. Suzanne Fagence Cooper is a writer, broadcaster and curator with expertise in 19th and 20th century British art and culture. She spent 12 years at the V&A Museum, researching the Victorian collections, and is in demand as historical consultant for TV and film. She is an invited lecturer for the Arts Society and Cunard voyages.
Suzanne was Research Curator for Ruskin, Turner & the Storm Cloud (York Art Gallery, 2019). She has written The Model Wife: Effie Gray, Ruskin & Millais and To See Clearly: Why Ruskin Matters. Her latest book is At Home with Jane and William Morris.
She is curating a new exhibition, ‘The Beauty of the Earth: May, Jane & William Morris’ for The Arc, Winchester, opening November 2025.
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