*Reviews

Edited by Rosie Miles:
Jennifer Wearden and Jennifer Scarce, Decorative Textiles from Arab & Islamic Cultures: Selections from the ‘Al Lulwa’ Collection (Linda Parry) 61
Maureen Meister, Arts & Crafts Architecture: History and Heritage in New England (Peter Faulkner) 64
Ruth Kinna, Kropotkin: Reviewing the Classical Anarchist Tradition (David Goodway) 69
Sheila Rowbotham, Rebel Crossings: New Women, Free Lovers, and Radicals in Britain and America (Michael Robertson) 72
Kate Nichols, Rebecca Wade & Gabriel Williams, eds, Art versus Industry? New Perspectives on Visual and Industrial Cultures in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Jim Cheshire) 76
Julie Sheldon, ed., The Della Robbia Pottery: From Renaissance to Regent Street (John Purkis) 79
Elizabeth Prettejohn, Modern Painters, Old Masters: The Art of Imitation from the Pre-Raphaelites to the First World War (Peter Faulkner) 82
Michael Drury, Wandering Architects: In Pursuit of an Arts and Crafts Ideal (Peter Faulkner) 85

Edited by Peter Faulkner:
Florence Boos, History and Poetics in the Early Writings of William Morris, 1855-1870 (Peter Faulkner) 74
Phillippa Bennett, Wonderlands: The Last Romances of William Morris (Ruth Kinna) 78
Simon Dentith, Nineteenth-Century British Literature Then and Now: Reading with Hindsight (Rosie Miles) 81
Piers J. Hale, Political Descent: Malthus, Mutualism and the Politics of Evolution in Victorian England (Patrick O’Sullivan) 85
Giles Waterfield, The People’s Galleries: Art Museums and Exhibitions in Britain 1800-1914 (Fiona Rose) 89
Devon Cox, The Street of Wonderful Possibilities: Whistler, Wilde and Sargent in Tite Street (John Purkis) 92

Edited by Peter Faulkner:
Clive Wilmer, ed, William Morris: The Odes of Horace (Facsimile edition) (Peter Faulkner) 76
Fiona MacCarthy, Anarchy and Beauty: William Morris and his Legacy 1860 – 1960 (John Purkis) 78
Elizabeth Wilhide, William Morris: Décor & Design (Fiona Rose) 81
Wendy Parkins, Jane Morris: the Burden of History (Frank Sharp) 84
Mark Frost, The Lost Companions and John Ruskin’s Guild of St George: A Revisionary History (Clive Wilmer) 87
Mercia McDermott, Lone Red Poppy (Helena Nielsen) 91
Graham Peel, Alec Miller: Carver, Guildsman, Sculptor (Diana Andrews) 94
Joanne Parker & Corinna Wagner, Art & Soul: Victorians and The Gothic (Gabriel Schenk) 97
Michael Hall, George Frederick Bodley and the Late Gothic Revival in Britain and America (Peter Faulkner) 100
Cal Winslow, ed, E.P. Thompson and the Making of the New Left: Essays and Polemics (Martin Crick) 105
Alex Prichard, Ruth Kinna, Saku Pinta & David Berry, eds, Libertarian Socialism: Politics in Black and Red (David Goodway) 109
Robert Hewison, Cultural capital; the rise and fall of creative Britain. (Martin Stott) 114

Edited by Peter Faulkner:
Linda Parry, William Morris Textiles (Lynn Hulse) 91
Mike and Kate Lea, eds, W.G Collingwood’s Letters from Iceland: Travels in Iceland 1897 (John Purkis) 95
Gary Sargeant, Friends and Influences: The Memoirs of an Artist (John Purkis) 98
Barrie and Wendy Armstrong, The Arts and Crafts Movement in the North East of England (Martin Haggerty) 100
Barrie and Wendy Armstrong, The Arts and Crafts Movement in Yorkshire (Ian Jones) 103
Annette Carruthers, The Arts and Crafts Movement in Scotland. A History (Peter Faulkner) 106
Laura Euler, Arts and Crafts Embroidery (Linda Parry) 110
Clive Bloom, Victoria’s Madmen: Revolution and Alienation (Peter Faulkner) 111
Hermione Lee, Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life (Christine Poulsom) 114
Carl Levy, ed, Colin Ward: Life, Times and Thought (Peter Faulkner) 117
Rosalind Williams, The Triumph of the Human Empire. Verne, Morris and Stevenson at the end of the world (Patrick O’Sullivan) 120

Edited by Peter Faulkner:
Alex Jones, William Morris in Iceland, (Gary Aho) 103
Robert L. M. Coupe, Illustrated Editions of the Works of William Morris in English, (Rosie Miles) 110
Frank McLynn, The Road Not Taken. How Britain Narrowly Missed a Revolution, (Peter Faulkner) 112
J. B. Bullen, Rossetti: Painter and Poet, (Rosie Miles) 113
Tim Barringer, Jason Rosenfeld & Alison Smith, Pre-Raphaelites. Victorian Avant-Garde. (Peter Faulkner) 116
Paola Spinozza & Elisa Bizzotto, The Germ: Origins and Progenies of PreRaphaelite Interart Aesthetics, (Dinah Roe) 120
William Waters, Angels and Icons. Pre-Raphaelite Stained Glass 1850–1870, (Jim Cheshire) 123
J. H. Bowman, ed, A critical edition of the private diaries of Robert Proctor: the life of a librarian at the British Museum, (John Purkis) 126

Edited by Peter Faulkner:
William Morris, The Wood Beyond the World, edited by Robert Boenig (Phillippa Bennett) 85
Joseph Phelan, The Music of Verse. Metrical Experiment in Nineteenth-Century Poetry (Peter Faulkner) 89
Martin Crick, The History of the William Morris Society (Martin Stott) 92
Fiona MacCarthy, The Last Pre-Raphaelite. Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination (Peter Faulkner) 96
Susie Harries, Nikolaus Pevsner: The Life (John Purkis) 100
Paul Ward, Red Flag and Union Jack: Englishness, Patriotism and the British Left, 1881–1924 (Gabriel Schenk) 103
James C. Whorton, The Arsenic Century (Mike Foulkes & Patrick O’Sullivan) 105

Edited by Peter Faulkner:
Phillippa Bennett & Rosie Miles, eds. William Morris in the Twenty-First Century, Oxfrord and Bern: Peter Lang AG, 2010 (John Purkis) 65
William E. Fredeman et al., eds, The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The Last Decade II, Vol. IX, 1879–1882, Kelmscott to Birchington (Peter Faulkner) 69
Regina Gagnier, Indivdualism, Decadence and Globalisation (Ruth Kinna) 75
Mervyn Miller, English Garden Cities: an introduction (Martin Stott) 78
Letitia Higgins, Royal School of Needlework: Handbook of Embroidery (Linda Parry) 80
Penny Sparke, Anne Massey, Trevor Keeble & Brenda Martin, eds, Designing the Modern Interior: From the Victorians to Today (Diana Andrews) 84
Matthew Crawford, The Case for Working with your Hands or Why Office Work is Bad for us and Fixing Things Feels Good (Jim Cheshire) 88