Publisher's Synopsis
In this attractive booklet, Fiona MacCarthy, one of the best-known biographers in Britain, examines the friendship of two of the most important and influential figures of their time. Morris and Burne-Jones met as young men at Oxford in 1853, and began a friendship which was to last almost all their adult life. Starting with the backdrop of life at Red House where they began a close artistic collaboration, the author examines similarities as well as the divergence between the two men both on a personal level, and with reference to their productivity on an artistic level.
The annual Kelmscott Lectures of the William Morris Society have been given by some of the foremost scholars in the field of Morrisian studies. This pamphlet is from the 2011 Kelmscott Lecture given by Fiona McCarthy at the Friends' Meeting House on November 5th 2011.
