Anything but Staffordshire
Rosemary Hill, 18 September 1997
Rare Spirit: A Life of William De Morgan 1839-1917
by Mark Hamilton.
Constable, 236 pp., £22.50, September 1997,0 09 474670 2 Show More
by Mark Hamilton.
Constable, 236 pp., £22.50, September 1997,
“... early 1850s fired the imaginations of the Oxford undergraduates William Morris and Edward Burne Jones. But De Morgan was enrolled at University College, where there was no scope for picturesque medievalism. The spirit of place did not haunt Gower Street. Having failed to get a degree, De Morgan decided to become a painter. He made friends among the second ... ”