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Vol. 12 No. 4 p. 43-51 Reviews

Edited by Peter Faulkner and Christine Poulson:
Victorian Poetry (Rosie Miles) 43
Mark Hamilton, Rare Spirit: A Life of William de Morgan (Ian Jones) 45
John Battle, Tom Maguire: Socialist and Poet (Nicholas Salmon) 46
Keith Alldritt, W B. Yeats. The Man and the Milieu (Peter Faulkner) 47
William Morris, A Speech by William Morris from the Cambridge Chronicle, 23 February 1878 (Nicholas Salmon) 48
Alison Byerly, Realism, Representation, and the Arts in Nineteenth Century Literature (Peter Faulkner) 49
John Burdick, William Morris. Redesigning the World (Peter Faulkner) 50

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Vol. 12 No. 3 p. 48-54 Reviews

Joan Hardwick, The Yeats Sisters (Peter Faulkner) 48
Janis Londraville, ed. On Poetry, Painting, and Politics: The Letters of May Morris and John Quinn (Jan Marsh) 49
Charles Harvey and John Press, Art, Enterprise and Ethics: The Life and Work of William Morris (Peter Faulkner) 50
David Betteridge and William Morris, William Morris: An Illustrated Life (Richard Tames) 52
Fiona MacCarthy, Telling the Tale of Topsy (Christine Poulson) 53
Luke Ionides, Memories (Ray Watkinson) 54

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Vol. 12 No. 2 p. 46-50 Reviews

Derek W. Baker, The Flowers of William Morris (Linda Parry) 46
Nicholas Salmon (ed.), William Morris on History (Peter Faulkner) 47
Christine Poulson (ed.), William Morris on Art & Design (Peter Faulkner) 47
Chris Miele (ed.), William Morris on Architecture (Peter Faulkner) 47
David Rodgers, William Morris at Home (Nicholas Salmon) 49
Nicholas Salmon with Derek Baker, The William Morris Chronology (Peter Faulkner) 50

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Vol. 12 No. 1 p. 48-55 Reviews

Edited by Stephen Coleman:
Gavin Stamp (ed.), Personal and Professional Recollections of Sir George Gilbert Scott (Peter Faulkner) 48
Simon Reynolds, William Blake Richmond. An Artist’s Life 1842-1921 (Peter Faulkner) 48
Jean Johnson and Richard Bishop (eds), The Earthly Paradise: William Morris Yesterday and Today (Stephen Coleman) 52
Norman Kelvin (ed.), The Collected Letters of William Morris (Peter Faulkner) 52
Linda Parry (ed.), William Morris: Art and Kelmscott (Peter Faulkner) 52
Arnold Rattenbury, Morris Papers (Peter Faulkner) 52

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Vol. 11 No. 4 p. 51-55 Reviews

Edited by Stephen Coleman:
The Collected Essays ofJohn Goode (Peter Faulkner) 51
Edmund and Ruth Frow, William Morris in Manchester and Salford (Stephen Coleman) 52
Rodney Engen, Pre-Raphaelite Prints (Jan Marsh) 53
Maureen Borland, D.S.MacColl (Peter Faulkner) 54

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Vol. 11 No. 3 p. 26-36 Reviews

Edited by Stephen Coleman:
Raphael Samuel, Theatres of Memory (Stephen Coleman) 26
Krishan Kumar, editor, News from Nowhere (Stan Parker) 27
M-T Blanchon, ‘Anti-liberalisme’ (Hans Brill) 28
Hazel Conway and Rowan Roenisch, Understanding Architecture (John Hanna) 29
Lindsay Smith, Victorian Photography, Painting and Poetry (Peter Faulkner) 31
Yvonne Kapp, In Search of Mr. and Mrs. Wardle (Ray Watkinson) 34

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Vol. 11 No. 2 p. 38-51 Reviews

Fiona MacCarthy, William Morris. A Life For Our Time (Ray Watkinson) 38
Nicholas Salmon, editor, William Morris: Political Writings (Adam Buick) 42
Isobel Armstrong, Victorian Poetry, and Jerome McGann, Black Riders (Simon Dentith) 43
John R. Nash, Mr. Cobden-Sanderson’s Two-handed Engine (John Dreyfus) 46
Pamela Bracken Wiens, editor, The Tables Turned (Peter Faulkner) 48
Stefan Szczelkun, The Conspiracy of Good Taste (Stephen Coleman) 49
Martin Crick, The History of the Social Democratic Federation (Stephen Coleman) 51

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Vol. 10 No. 4 p. 53-56 Reviews

Edited by Stephen Coleman:
Jeffrey Skoblow, Paradise Dislocated (Peter Faulkner) 53
Ernie Trory, Truth Against the World (Peter Faulkner) 53
Manfred Pfister, ed., Rot und Crun (Jan Hollm) 54
Barry johnson, ed., Olive and Stepniak (Peter Faulkner) 55

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Vol. 10 No. 3 p. 19-24 Reviews

Edited by Stephen Coleman:
The Victorian Encounter With Marx: A Study of Ernest Belfort Bax by John Cowley (Stephen Coleman) 19
Eco-Socialism: From Deep Ecology to Social Justice by David Pepper (Stephen Coleman) 21
Florence Boos, The Design of William Morris’ ‘The Earthly Paradise'(Peter Faulkner) 22
William Morris – News from Nowhere And Other Writingsedited by Clive Wilmer (Stephen Coleman) 24

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Vol. 10 No. 2 p. 27-32 Reviews

Kath Filmer, ed., The Victorian Fantasists (Peter Faulkner) 27
Josephine M. Guy, The British Avant Garde (Peter Faulkner) 27
Barbara Dennis, Charlotte Yonge. Novelist of the Oxford Movement (Peter Faulkner) 27
Peter Faulkner, William Morris and the idea of England (Jon Press) 29
Mill Road/Merton High Street, London Borough of Merton. An Archaeological Investigation: Interim Report (John Purkis) 30
David Nash, Secularism, Art and Freedom (Stephen Coleman) 31

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Vol. 10 No. 1 p. 35-39 Reviews

Vim Neetens, Writing And Democracy: Literature. Politics and Culture in Transition (Stephen Coleman) 35
Edvige Schulte. Scritti minore di letteratura e lingua inglese (Edmund S. Grant) 36
ACorrado, ed., William Morris ‘News from Nowhere’ cent’ anni dopa: A. Corrado, P. Faulkner, K. Kumar, E. Schulte (Edmund S. Grant) 36
Peter Faulkner, ed., William Morris. Selected Poems (Brian Spittles) 37

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Vol. 9 No. 4 p. 35-48 Reviews

Teresa Newman and Ray Warkinson, Ford Madox Brown and the Pre-Raphaelite Circle (Penelope Fitzgerald) 35
Muriel Whitaker, The Legends of King Arthur in Art (Christine Poulson) 37
William S. Peterson, The Kelmscott Press: A History of William Morris’s Typographical Adventure (Richard Pearson) 38
Malcolm Haslam, Arts and Crafts Carpets (Linda Parry) 41
Dilip Kumar Barua, Edward Carpenter, 1844-1929: An Apostle of Freedom (Kerima Mohideen) 42
Charles Harvey and Jon Press, William Morris: Design & Enterprise in Victorian Britain (Jan Marsh) 45
Elizabeth Cumming and Wendy Kaplan, The Arts and Crafts Movement (Christine Poulson) 47
Studies in Medievalism (Peter Faulkner) 48

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Vol. 9 No. 3 p. 31-40 Reviews

Krishan Kumar, Utopianism (Stephen Coleman) 31
Ruth Levitas, The Concept of Utopia (Stephen Coleman) 31
Edward Hollamby, Red House (Ray Watkinson) 34
Jack Lindsay, William Morris, Dreamer of Dreams (Peter Faulkner) 37
David Latham and Sheila Latham, An Annotated Critical Bibliography of William Morris (Peter Faulkner) 37
Clive Wilmer, editor, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Selected Poems and Translations (Peter Faulkner) 37
David Kindersley and Lida Lopes Cardolo, Letters Slate-Cut (Ray Watkinson) 39
Stephen Coote, William Morris, His Life and Work(Peter Faulkner) 39

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Vol. 9 No. 2 p. 40-47 Reviews

Frederick Kirchhoff, William Morris: The Construction of a Male Self 1856-1872 (Jan Marsh) 40
Chris Waters, British Socialists and the Politics of Popular Culture (Stephen Coleman) 41
Socialism and the Literary Artistry of William Morris(Peter Faulkner) 43
Pamela Robertson, editor, Charles Rennie Mackintosh: The Architectural Papers (John Hanna) 44
Christopher Hampton, The Ideology of the Text (Tony Pinkney) 46

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Vol. 9 No. 1 p. 45-47 Reviews

Stephen Coleman and Paddy O’Sullivan, William Morris and News from Nowhere. A Vision for our Time(Peter Faulkner) 45
Barry C. Johnson, editor, Tea and Anarchy! The Bloomsbury Diary of Olive Garnett 1890-1893 (Peter Faulkner) 46

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Vol. 8 No. 4 p. 31-40 Reviews

Angela Emanuel (ed.), A Bright Remembrance. The Diaries of Julia Cartwright (Hilary Morgan) 31
Alicia Craig Faxon, Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Hilary Morgan) 31
Jan Marsh and Pamela Gerrish Nunn, Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement (Hilary Morgan) 31
Jan Marsh, The Legend of Elizabeth Siddal (Hilary Morgan) 31
Christine Poulson, William Morris (Ray Watkinson) 35
Edmund and Ruth Frow, editors, The Politics of Hope (Peter Faulkner) 36
Stephen Hill, The Tragedy of Technology (Peter Faulkner) 36
David Ottewill, The Edwardian Garden (Mhairi Hay, Paddy O’Sullivan) 37
Martin Greenwood, The Designs of William De Morgan(Jon Catleugh) 38
Martin Harrison and Bill Waters, Burne-Jones (Peter Faulkner) 40

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Vol. 18 No. 3 p. 093-122 Reviews

Edited by Peter Faulkner:
Hassan Mahamdallie, Crossing the ‘river of fire’: the socialism of William Morris. (Ruth Kinna), 93
Anne Taylor, The People’s Laird. A Life of Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham. (John E. Coombes), 95
Paul Delany, George Gissing: A Life. (Peter Faulkner), 100
Michael E. Brown, The Historiography of Communism.(David Goodway), 104
Richard Bronk, The Romantic Economist. (Patrick O’Sullivan), 106
Imogen Racz, Contemporary Crafts. (Jim Cheshire), 109
Stefan Muthesius, The Poetic Home: Designing the 19th century Domestic
Interior. (Linda Parry), 111
Sandra Alfoldy & Janice Helland, eds, Craft, Space and Interior Design, 1855–2005. (Helen Elletson), 114
Michael Fisher, Alton Towers Past and Present. (John Purkis), 118
David Meara, Modern Memorial Brasses 1880–2001. (Joseph Mirwitch), 120

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Vol. 18 No. 2 p. 65-94 Reviews

Edited by Peter Faulkner:
Caroline Arscott, William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones. Interlacings. (Peter Faulkner), 65
Dennis Sharp, ed. & intro., The English House. (Diana Andrews), 69
Sheila Rowbotham, Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love. (Martin Haggerty), 75
Herbert Tucker, Epic: Britain’s Heroic Muse 1790-1910 (Simon Dentith), 81
Michael Fisher, Hardman of Birmingham, Goldsmith and Glasspainter, (Jim Cheshire), 84
Franny Moyle, Desperate Romantics. The Private Lives of the Pre-Raphaelites; Jenny Ridd, A Destiny Defined. Dante Gabriel Rossetti
and Elizabeth Siddal in Hastings (Peter Faulkner), 87
Elizabeth K. Helsinger, Poetry and the Pre-Raphaelite arts: Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris, (Tony Pinkney), 90

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Vol. 18 No. 1 p. 096-101 Reviews

Edited by Peter Faulkner:
Simon Dentith, Epic and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Britain. (Peter Faulkner) 96
Elizabeth Prettejohn, Art for Art’s Sake: Aestheticism in Victorian Painting. (Tony Pinkney) 99
Glen Adamson, Thinking Through Craft, Howard Risatti, A Theory of Craft Function and Aesthetic Expression, Richard Sennett, The Craftsman. (Jim Cheshire) 101

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Vol. 17 No. 4 p. 117-147 Reviews

Edited by Peter Faulkner:
Tony Pinkney, William Morris in Oxford. The Campaigning Years.(Peter Faulkner), 117.
Peter Preston, Dreaming London: The Future City in Morris and Others.(David Goodway), 122.
Carol Jacobi, William Holman Hunt: Painter Painting Paint. (Nic Peeters), 124.
Rodger Drew, The Stream’s Secret: The Symbolism of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. (Christopher McIntosh), 127.
David Latham, ed., Writing on the Image: Reading William Morris.(Amelia Yeates), 129.
Gertrude Himmelfarb, ed., The Spirit of the Age. Victorian Essays. (Peter Faulkner), 133.
David Goodway, Anarchist Seeds beneath the Snow: Left-Libertarian Thought and British Writers from William Morris to Colin Ward. (Martin Haggerty), 135.
Margaret Stetz, Facing the Late Victorians: Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection. (Jan Marsh), 140.
Lachlan Blackley, Wallpaper. (Peter Faulkner), 142.
Jonathan Meyer, Great Exhibitions: London – New York – Paris – Philadelphia, 1851-1900. (Diana Andrews), 144.
Jerrold Northrop Moore, F.L. Griggs: The Architecture of Dreams. (Peter Faulkner), 147.

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Vol. 17 No. 3 p. 74-93 Reviews

Edited by Peter Faulkner:
Alan Crossley, Tom Hassall & Peter Salway [eds.], William Morris’s Kelmscott: Landscape & History.(Diana Andrews), 74.
William M. Taylor, The Vital Landscape. Nature and the Built Environment in Nineteenth-Century Britain. (Martin Delveaux), 78.
William E. Fredeman [ed.],The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The Last Decade 1873-1882 Kelmscott to Birchington. Volume vi 1873-1874(Peter Faulkner), 85.

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Vol. 17 No. 2 p. 115-50 Reviews

Edited by Peter Faulkner:
“William and Emma Morris” [Rev. of John Le Bourgeios, Art and Forbidden Fruit(Peter Faulkner) 115-137.
William E. Fredeman, ed., The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. 3: The Chelsea Years, 1863-1872. Prelude to Crisis I. 1863-1867.(Jan Marsh) 138-141.
William E. Fredeman, ed., The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. 4: The Chelsea Years, 1863-1872. Prelude to Crisis II. 1868-1870. (Rosie Miles) 142-146.
William E. Fredeman, ed., The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. 5: The Chelsea Years, 1863-1872. Prelude to Crisis III. 1871-1872.(Richard Frith) 147-150.

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Vol. 17 No. 1 p. 73-90 Reviews

Edited by Peter Faulkner:
Karen Livingstone and Linda Parry, eds., International Arts and Crafts(Helen Elletson) 73-75.
Lesley Hoskins, ed., The Papered Wall: The History, Patterns, and Techniques of Wallpaper(Peter Faulkner) 76-78.
Loretta M. Holloway and Jennifer A. Palmgren, eds., Beyond Arthurian Romances (Phillippa Bennett) 79-80.
Paul Greenhalgh, The Modern Ideal: The Rise and Collapse of Idealism in the Visual Arts from the Enlightenment to Postmodernism (Peter Faulkner) 83-86.
Paul Barlow, Time Present and Time Past: The Art of John Everett Millais(Nic Peeters) 87-90.

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Vol. 16 No. 4 p. 077-127 Reviews

Edited by Peter Faulkner:
Eugene D. LeMire, A Bibliography of William Morris(Robert Coupe) 77-80.
Tony Pinkney, ed., We Met Morris: Interviews with William Morris, 1885-96 (Martin Delveaux) 81-85.
Jan Marsh, William Morris and Red House (Linda Parry) 86-90.
Pamela Todd, William Morris and the Arts & Crafts Home; Brian D. Coleman, Historic Arts & Crafts Homes of Great Britain (Diana Andrews) 91-95.
William E. Fredeman, ed., The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, vols. 3-5 (Peter Faulkner) 96-98.
David B. Elliott, A Pre-Raphaelite Marriage: The Lives and Works of Marie Spartali Stillman and William James Stillman(Richard Frith) 99-101.
Jan Marsh, National Portrait Gallery Insights: The Pre-Raphaelite Circle(Christine Whitney) 102-106.
David Peters Corbett, Edward Burne-Jones(Christine Whitney) 107-109.
Sandy Brown and Maya Kumar Mitchell, eds., The Beauty of Craft: A Resurgence Anthology (Martin Delveaux) 110-116.
Jim Cheshire, Stained Glass and the Victorian Gothic Revival (Peter Cormack) 117-118.
Juliet Kinchin and Paul Stirton, eds., Is Mr Ruskin Living Too Long? Selected Writings of E. W. Godwin on Victorian Architecture and Design (Jim Cheshire) 119-122.
Tim Barringer, Men at Work: Art and Labour in Victorian Britain (Tony Pinkney) 123-125.
Brenda M. King, Silk and Empire (Jan Marsh) 126-127.

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