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JANE ALICE MORRIS BORN - The William Morris Society

Jane Alice (Jenny') Morris was born at the Red House. Morris named her Alice after his younger sister. She was - at a later date - christened at Bexley Church in Kent. A celebration dinner was held after the christening at the Red House which was attended by amongst others Rossetti, Swinburne, the Browns, the Marshalls

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Jane Alice ('Jenny') Morris - National Portrait Gallery

Embroiderer William and Jane Morris's elder daughter was always known simply as Jenny. Educated at Notting Hill High School, she seemed destined for one of the new women's colleges; but after developing acute epilepsy was incapacitated for the rest of her life, with Jane becoming her primary carer.

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Jane Morris (née Burden) - National Portrait Gallery

Embroiderer and artist's model; wife of William Morris In 1857, Burden was spotted by artists Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Edward Burne-Jones in Oxford, and was sought by them as a model. She sat initially for Rossetti and then for William Morris. The two became engaged and married in 1859. Burden was privately educated and recreated herself from the daughter of a stablehand into a lady. She was an accomplished embroiderer and worked with her husband in their furnishings business, embroidering...

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