News from Nowhere by William Morris

As a cofounder of Morris, Marshall, Faulkner, & Co., he was one of the Victorian era’s preeminent interior decorators and designers specializing in tapestries, wallpaper, fabrics, stained glass, and furniture. With Neo-Gothic architect Philip Webb, the founder of the Arts and Crafts movement, he designed the Red House in Bexleyheath, where he would live with his family from 1859 until moving to London in 1865. Upon graduating, he married embroiderer Jane Burden and befriended prominent Pre-Raphaelites Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Morris studied Classics at Oxford, where he was a member of the influential Birmingham Set. Born in Walthamstow, Essex, he was raised in a wealthy family alongside nine siblings. William Morris (1834-1896) was an English designer, poet, novelist, and socialist.