Frances Wilson

Was Jane Morris a sphinx without a secret?

She was beautiful – and useful to the husband she didn’t love – but beyond her jam-making and embroidery we still know little about her

‘Day Dream’, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1880, with Jane Morris as model. [Bridgeman Images]

  • How We Might Live: At Home with Jane and William Morris

    Suzanne Fagence Cooper

    Quercus, pp. 320, £30

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