William Morris

Environmentalism is about conserving and preserving the environment.

-the industrialisation revolution started within this time. It's artists that brought up how beautiful nature was. 

         "Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."

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Film of Morris part 1 (arts and crafts movement)

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William Morris was carried to his grave in a house and cartridge covered in vines. He was buried (being very patriotic) in an old English county side church (considering he's an atheist) which he didn't like trains because they were part of the industrialisation. He chose what would've been a "poorpers" funeral, despite having money because it was more for aesthetically pleasing. Philłip Red designed the grave stone for Morris, they were friends. 

Morris was an incredible worker, he completed so many things; wrote 90 books, designed wallpaper a and many more. He was for the protection of homes and housing and the most popular poet of his day. His life was a crusade against the industrilisation and wanted to preserve beauty. William lived his early life in an extremely wealthy household in Wolvenstoe. Morris went to a private school for all boys, where his mother would hope that he would improve in theology which is controversial since he died an atheist. He used to sit in the window and admire the beauty of the outside world and reading. The boys school was riddled with anarchy where Morris was then taken from the school by his mother. In his first week in Oxford, Morris and Edward Burn Jones became very good friends. Morris was a exceptional poet and was extremely interested in medieval history. In the course of that year, he began to write poetry. Ruskin was part of the reason that influenced Morris' obsession with gothic buildings, teaching him the freedom of expression and spiritual expression.

The satisfaction of Gothic Buildings were a big thing for Morris and his friends, something that wasn't able to be fulfilled by the industrialisation, so they also travelled by foot when going on a tour. Him, Ruskin and Burns were all very interested; which all gave up the church for art. 

Rossetti was a very different person they'd ever met and Morris fell "under his spell". Morris and his friends painted the 'Joviel Campaign' in Oxford. 

("Chivalrous" means somewhat a 'night in shining armour' mass romanticising.) 

Morris and Burns moved into housing in London, where he incidentally created his own furniture design because he didn't want anything they could find regularly. The lady who owned the housing did not like Morris at all; he always got the oldest, coldest bed and the worst of the bunch; food. Morris was a very aggravated individual. However, when becoming in love with a person, Jane, he read up on love and his drawings were very strip of the lady. She was illiterate and people were surprised when they married and which later, she then told him she did not genuinely love Morris, although they did have a child; May Morris. May Morris was the last of the Morris rein. "Red House" was a recreation of homes in the past and the future all rolled into one which he was determined to make it become beautiful and going against anything that was somewhat generic and generalised for specific quarters. It was a romance. 'Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.' was a quote that Morris quoted during their time creating their idealistic home. The walls were painted white because the light and shadow played pleasantly on the walls; which he hadn't created his wallpaper just yet.

Before the marriage of Morris and Jane, Lizzie died.

("Socialism" means equal wealth with the contradiction of the rich being richer and the poor being standard.) 

Morris worked on the 'Earthly Paradise' shortly after; which became very illiterate as it proceeded. He would hold dinner parties where he would read sections of the book to people. Morris became a 'celebrity' - where Rossetti was relentless. Rossetti painted a painting for Morris where Morris somewhat believed he had regained her possession. In the painting she is beyond words; something she could never be in general life. She could always look the part; think the part but as soon as she opened her mouth she would immediately give it away that she was not like them as individuals.

Whilst Jane was undergoing medical treatment in a spa, Rossetti was illustrating Jane in the bath with water around the bath to symbolise her treatment. Rossetti and Jane were originally having an affair (or so they say.) May became a socialist embroiderer and jeweller. Jenny, another child of Morris, suffered from epilepsy and died in 1935 of Diabetic Complications. Rossetti was addicted to a Chloral, a solvent that he abused. During the attempt to cure him, Rossetti died in which Morris very morned.

Morris and Jane and still married; however Jane met a obnoxious womaniser, Wilfred Scawen Blunt. But, whilst making love due to his fixation, Jane's lover used to imagine him above them in spiritual form whilst 'making love'.

(Karl Marx was a writer who influenced the Communism and Socialism.)

Oscar Wilde was told to 'join it' - the Socialism - which Morris was the individual to say it in his typical whit.