First, the best cake ever...a William Morris birthday cake in a very Morris-ian lettering, from William Morris on Facebook:
Second, a portrait of Topsy I had never seen before, posted by Kirsty over at The Kissed Mouth along with a wonderful blog post about his life.
Of all the portraits I've ever seen of him, this seems to sum him up best...too busy to even stay still for a portrait, working hard on one project or another. Dear Topsy...the man whose physician diagnosed his cause of death as being "simply being William Morris, and having done more work than most ten men."
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I think you might my blog might interest you, I post material pertaining to Jane Burden Morris and other re-raphaelite muses.
http://stainedglassdesigns.blogspot.ca/search/label/Jane%20Burden%20Morris
io9 have shortlisted William Morris' 'News From Nowhere' in their Victorian Hugo Awards for anno 1890.
The article also says "...his 'Tale of the House of Wolfings' [i]s a novel that should have been nominated [in the 1889 Hugos]but wasn't."
http://io9.com/5899887/the-victorian-hugos-1890
Glass Artist, I love your blog! Thanks so much for sharing.
Merrian, thank you for the info...I made a post about it after you showed me!
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