WILLIAM MORRIS: A LIFE FOR OUR TIME

In this definitive biography which is insightful, comprehensiveand addictively readable, the award-winning Fiona MacCarthy gives us a richly detailed portrait of William Morris, the legendary designer and father of the Victorian Arts and Crafts movemen. It reveals his complex character, shedding light on his immense creative powers as artist and designer of furniture, fabrics, wallpaper, stained glass, tapestry, and books, and his role as a poet, novelist and translator. It also covers his psychology and his emotional life, his frenetic activities as polemicist and reformer and his remarkable circle of friends, literary, artistic and political, including Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Edward Burne-Jones. It is a masterpiece of biographical art.