![]() ![]() In 1861, Morris founded the Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. Webb and Morris designed Red House in Kent where Morris lived from 1859 to 1865, before moving to Bloomsbury, central London. ![]() After university, he married Jane Burden, and developed close friendships with Pre-Raphaelite artists Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti and with Neo-Gothic architect Philip Webb. He came under the strong influence of medievalism while studying Classics at Oxford University, there joining the Birmingham Set. Morris was born in Walthamstow, Essex, to a wealthy middle-class family. His literary contributions helped to establish the modern fantasy genre, while he helped win acceptance of socialism in fin de siècle Great Britain. He was a major contributor to the revival of traditional British textile arts and methods of production. William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was a British textile designer, poet, artist, fantasy writer, architectural conservationist, printer, translator and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts Movement. ![]()
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