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Morris was first sent to school at nine years old, riding the two-mile journey on the same pony he would later take on excursions around Epping Forest.

Marlborough next, Morris now aged fourteen. It’s lawless and violent there - the schoolboys, feral progeny of upper-middle class Anglican clergymen, pelt stones at passing farmers and skin wild animals in Savernake Forest, a more cultivated Epping.

William morris biography fiona burnt

William morris biography fiona burnt

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Morris hides out in it, exploring churches and ancient burial-mounds, weaving nets. At Oxford, Morris is intended for the Church, but rails against Anglicanism. He and Burne-Jones edge closer to Catholic doctrine, drawing on the recent Tractarian disputes, and gain an interest in the Gothic revival as a rejuvenation of medieval Christianity.

With Burne-Jones Morris has ‘his first real friendship’ (p.59), and a real group of friends also - they read Shakespeare, Tennyson, Keats and Wordsworth to each other, and write poetry themselves.