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17 October 2019

W158_May_Morris_in_tapestry_room

Chief among the keepers of the shrines to William Morris  was his younger daughter May, who not only followed her father into socialism but who took up, and in some areas surpassed, his own expertise in textiles’ (Fiona MacCarthy). Here she is in the Tapestry Room at Kelmscott Manor painted by Mary Sloane c. 1910.

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