The Morrisian

From the November edition of Punch in 1883:

Swinish Luxury: Edward Burne-Jones's Heart of the Rose , based on a wall hanging he'd designed for Sir Lowthian Bell. Warington ...

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...