The Morrisian

Young Ruskin loved the 'delicate stamens of the herbage' beside Raphael's St. Catherine My last post looked at the moment w...

“ A plant, a tree, or a flower, he will depict either with the minuteness of the pre-Raphaelite painter.”  This sentence seems to have be...

Morning, Morning! It was Morris's occasional habit to offer belated birthday greetings like this one: "Dearest Mother I havn...

My partner's family lives in Woodhall Spa, near the romantically-named village of Tattershall. (For non-UK readers: close to Woodhall S...

My friend Tucker recently sent me an excerpt from Bill Bryson's wonderful book, At Home: A Short History of Private Life . It refer...

Dinah Roe admitted in her first blog post to owning a Lady Shalott floaty pen; I hereby admit that the first thing that drew me to Willia...