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Vol. 24 No. 1-2 p. 152-173 Reviews

Edited by Rosie Miles:
Katherine M. Kuenzli, Henry van de Velde: Designing Modernism (Peter Faulkner) 152
Richard Mathews and Joseph Rosenblum, eds, Printing for Book Production: Emery Walker’s Three Lectures for the Sandars Readership in Bibliography (John P. Murphy) 156
Stefan Collini, The Nostalgic Imagination: History in English Criticism (Peter Faulkner) 160
William Morris, How I Became a Socialist, introduction by Owen Hatherley and ed. by Owen Holland (Peter Halton) 164
Alec Hamilton, Arts & Crafts Churches (Kirsty Hartsiotis) 167
John Blewitt, William Morris and the Instinct for Freedom (John Stirling) 171 

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Vol. 23 No. 4 p. 35-75 Reviews

Edited by Rosie Miles:
Kehinde Wiley, The Yellow Wallpaper exhibition William Morris Gallery 22 February to 25 May 2020 (David Mabb) 35
Laura Marcus, Michèle Mendelssohn and Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr, eds, Late Victorian into Modern (Peter Faulkner) 41
Aaron Bastani, Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto (Patrick O’Sullivan) 46
Owen Holland, William Morris’s Utopianism: Propaganda, Politics and Prefiguration (Tony Pinkney), 52
Duncan Bowie, The Radical and Socialist Tradition in British Planning: From Puritan Colonies to Garden Cities (Martin Stott) 56
Jan Marsh, Pre-Raphaelite Sisters (Rosie Miles), 61
Joseph North, Literary Criticism: A Concise Political History (Owen Holland) 70

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Vol. 23 No. 2 p. 66-87 Reviews

Edited by Rosie Miles:
Life and Art at the David Parr House, 186 Gwydir Street, Cambridge (David Mabb) 66
Fiona MacCarthy, Walter Gropius: Visionary Founder of the Bauhaus (Peter Faulkner) 73
John Holmes, The Pre-Raphaelites and Science (Ann Gagné) 77
Emelyne Godfrey, ed., Utopias and Dystopias in the Fiction of H. G. Wells and William Morris: Landscape and Space (Peter Faulkner) 81
Eleonora Sasso, The Pre-Raphaelites and Orientalism: Language and Cognition in Remediations of the East (Jan Marsh) 84

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Vol. 8 No. 3 p. 28-36 Reviews

Peter Fullet, Theoria. Art, and the Absence of Grace (Peter Faulkner) 28
David Gerard, John Ruskin & Wi/liam Morris: The Energies of Order and Love (Christine Poulson) 33
S.K. Tillyard, The Impact of Modernism: The Visual Arts in Edwardian England (Tony Pinkney) 33
J.B. Bullen (ed), Post-Impressionists in Ellglalld: The Critical Reception (Tony Pinkney) 33
L. Honnighausen, The Symbolist Tradition in English Literature. A Study of Pre-Raphaelism and ‘Fin de Siecle’ (Peter Faulkner) 35
William Morris: Full Color-Patterns and Designs (Peter Faulkner) 36

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Vol. 8 No. 2 p. 30-39 Reviews

Norman Kelvin, ed., The Collected Letters of William Morris (Charles Page) 30
Jeremy Cooper, Victorian & Edwardian Furniture & Interiors. From Gothic Revivial to Art Nouveau (David Medd) 33
Gillian Naylor, ed., William Morris by himself. Designs and Writings (Peter Faulkner) 36
Fiona MacCarthy, Eric Gill (Peter Faulkner) 36
Roger Coleman, The Art of Work: an Epitaph to Skill(Ray Watkinson) 38

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Vol. 8 No. 1 p. 42-47 Reviews

Shirley Nicholson, A Victorian Household (Jan Marsh) 42
Malcolm Chase, The People’s Farm: English Radical Agrigarianism 1775–1840 (Ray Watkinson) 43
Linda Parry, Textiles of the Arts & Crafts Movement (Christine Poulson) 44
J.M.S. Tomkins, William Morris: An Approach to the Poetry(Sheila Smith) 45
William Morris, The Story of the Glittering Plain (Peter Faulkner) 47
The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite and Aesthetic Studies (Peter Faulkner) 47

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Vol. 7 No. 4 p. 29-32 Reviews

Zuzanna Shofield, The Precariously Privileged: A Professional Family in Victorian London (Jan Marsh) 29
Robin Tanner, Double Harness. An Autobiography (Nicholas Friend) 30

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Vol. 7 No. 3 p. 23-33 Reviews

Gary L. Aho, William Morris: A Reference Guide (Richard Smith) 23
Peter Faulkner, ed., Jane Morris to Wilfrid Scawlen Blunt: The Letters of Jane Morris to Wilfrid Scawlen Blunt together with extracts from Blunt’s diaries (Norman Kelvin) 24
Amanda Hodgson, The Romances of William Morris (Andrew Dodds) 27
Dorothy A. Harrop, Sir Emery Walker 1851 – 1933 (Colin Franklin) 28
Norman Jewson, By Chance I Did Rove (Nicholas Friend) 29
J.S. Ryan, ed., The Nameless Wood. Victorian Fantasists — Their Achievements — Their Influence (Peter Faulkner) 31
T. Pinkney, ed., News from Nowhere. Journal of the Oxford English Faculty Opposition (Peter Faulkner) 31

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Vol. 7 No. 1 p. 61-68 Further Reviews

Edvige Shulte, Dante Gabrielle Rossetti; Vita, arte, poesia (Hans Brill) 61
Peter Stansky, Redesigning the World: William Morris, the 1880s, and the Arts and Crafts (Gillian Naylor) 63
Barbara Morris, Inspiration for Design: the Influence of the Victoria and Albert Museum (Ray Watkinson) 66
Ornate Wallpapers (Peter Faulkner) 67
William S. Peterson, William Morris. The Ideal Book. Essays and Lectures in the Art ofthe Book (Peter Faulkner) 68

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Vol. 6 No. 4 p. 18-28 Reviews

Edited by Peter Faulkner:
Archibald Maclaren, The Fairy Family (Hilary Morgan) 18
Peter Fuller, Images of God. Consolations of Lost Illusions (Peter Faulkner) 21
Carole Silver, The Romance of William Morris (Peter Faulkner) 22
A.R. Dufty, Morris Embroideries: The Prototypes(Barbara J. Morris) 23
John Murray, From Samuel Smiles: George and Robert Stephenson (Lives of Engineers), revised edition of 1879. 25
Rosemary J. Curry and Sheila Kirk, Philip Webb in the North (Malcom Chase) 26
Jan Marsh, Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood (R[ay] W[atkinson]) 28
A.S. Osley, The Kelmscott Manor volume of Italian-Writing Books(R[ay] W[atkinson]) 28

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Vol. 6 No. 2 p. 26-32 Reviews

Edvige Schulte, The Pilgrims ofHope: an Italian view of Morris (Hans Brill) 26
P. D. Anthony, John Ruskin’s Labour: an odd view of Morris (Ray Watkinson) 28
William S. Peterson, A Bibliography of the Kelmscott Press (Richard S. Smith), 31

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Vol. 13 No. 3 p. 44-66 Reviews

Edited by Peter Faulkner and Christine Poulson
Peter Faulkner and Peter Preston (eds.), William Morris Centenary Essays (Nicholas Salmon) 44
Peter Funnell and Malcolm Warner (eds.), Millais: Portraits (Jan Marsh) 49
G. H. Fleming, John Everett Millais: A Biography (Jan Marsh) 49
Wendy Hitchmough, Arts and Crafts Gardens (Sonia Crutchlow) 50
Vanessa Brand (ed.), The Study of the Past in the Victorian Age (Martin Brown) 51
Mark Samuels Lasner, The Yellow Book: A Checklist and Index (Nicholas Salmon) 53
Christine Poulson, The Quest for the Grail: Arthurian Legend in British Art 1840-1 920 (Jan Marsh) 54
Simon Dentith, Society and Cultural Forms in the Nineteenth Century (Peter Faulkner) 56
David Latham (ed.), Scarlet Hunters: Pre-Raphaelitism in Canada (Inga Bryden) 58
Stephen Wildman and John Christian et al, Edward Burne-Jones: Victorian Artist-Dreamer (Christine Poulson) 60
Richard and Hilary Myers, William Morris Tiles. The Tile Designs of Morris and His Fellow-Workers (Peter Cormack) 61
Peter Stanksy, Another Book that Never Was: William Morris, Charles Gere, The House of the Wolfings (Nicholas Salmon) 63
Marc Fasanella, Mary: A Christmas Story (Nicholas Salmon) 63
D. G. C. Allan, RSA. A Chronological History of the Royal Society of the Encouratement of Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce (Peter Faulkner) 65

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Vol. 13 No. 1 p. 73-83 Reviews

Edited by Peter Faulkner & Christine Poulson:
Linda Parry (ed.), William Morris (Christine Poulson) 73
Norman Talbot, Betwixt Wood-Woman, Wolf and Bear: The Heroic Age Romances of William Morris (Amanda Hodgson) 74
Brian Keeble, Art: For Whom and For What? (Peter Faulkner) 76
Rikky Rooksby, A. C. Swinburne: A Poet’s Life (Peter Faulkner) 78
Sally Peters, Bernard Shaw. The Ascent of Superman (Peter Faulkner)
Michelle Weinroth, Reclaiming William Morris: Englishness, Sublimity, and the Rhetoric of Dissent (Ruth Levitas) 80
Nicola Gordon Bowe and Elizabeth Cumming, The Arts & Crafts Movement in Dublin and Edinburgh (Christine Poulson) 82

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