William Morris: His Life and Work.(Review)

Utopian Studies | January 1, 1999| | Copyright

Stephen Coote. William Morris: His Life and Work. Stroud (Gloucestershire): Alan Sutton, 1996. 224 pp. 18.99 [pounds sterling].

THERE IS LITTLE QUESTION that William Morris brought on his own early death at sixty-two by excessive industriousness--or so his doctor implied in his famous diagnosis--that his patient's terminal illness was induced by "simply being William Morris and having done more work than most ten men." These two recent books show that Morris scholars continue to be industrious in examining the life and work of their subject. As an undergraduate in ...

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