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This book gathers together thirteen interviews with William Morris which appeared in newspapers or journals between 1885 and 1896, the year of his death. The idea of such a volume was first mooted by Nicholas Salmon, author of The William Morris Chronology and editor of two major collections of Morris's political journalism, who did not live to bring it to fruition. The volume is dedicated to him. Taken as a whole, the interviews give us a vivid sense of Morris as he appeared to his contemporaries: of his range of activities and preoccupations, his places of work and leisure, his clothes, gestures, moods and phrases. In these interviews we see Morris to be restless intellectually as he often in physically, constantly pressing forward into new fields of artistic endeavour, and always relating these to the wider politics of his society. Tony Pinkney is a noted Morris scholar and a lecturer in the Department of English and Creative Writing at Lancaster University. To order this book:
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