An inscription by Jenny Morris

The Tale of King Florus and the Fair Jehane

translated by William Morris
publisged and printed by William Morris
at the Kelmscott Press 1893
with an inscription by Jenny Morris
from the Andrew Lloyd Webber collection

Linda Parry describes how William Morris was helped by his wife Jane in the making of embroideries for Red House.

http://www.kelmscottmanor.org.uk/conversations?id=356

William Morris

William Morris, self portrait in 1856, two years before he got engaged to Jane and three years before they married.

Victorian & British Impressionist Art Thursday 31 May 2012 8 King Street, St. James's, London

http://www.christies.com/eCatalogues/index.aspx?id=51741BFC460F34548525793C003ECD6A

Biography

"There are two principal models for biography in our culture, and perhaps the first decision the biographer has to face is which of the two will best suit the subject in question. First, there is the Boswellian model: the massive tome (or tomes) containing as much material as can be garnered, following the philosophy that the more we know about the great man — or woman — the more fully we are able to view him or her in the round. The second model was developed by Lytton Strachey in reaction to what he called the Victorian ‘Standard Biographies’ in ‘two fat volumes,’ full of irrelevant detail; Stracheyan biography is slim and sleek, communicated through carefully chosen points and characteristic anecdotes."

from Brooke Allen’s review of Rosamund Bartlett’s new biography on Tolstoy.

Fiona MacCarthy anybody!

The Beloved Conflation

http://fannycornforth.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/beloved-conflation.html

Madness in Grey