Social Democratic Federation

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 86. Chapters: Social Democratic Federation breakaway groups, Social Democratic Federation members, William Morris, Ramsay MacDonald, James Connolly, George Lansbury, John Spargo, Edward Carpenter, Socialist Party of Great Britain, Socialist League, Socialist Labour Party, John Maclean, Guy Aldred, Eleanor Marx, Edward Aveling, John Burns, Social Democratic Federation election results, Harry Snell, 1st Baron Snell, Tom Mann, Bloody Sunday, Robert Tressell, John Ward, Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick, Harry Quelch, Henry Hyndman, Henry Hyde Champion, Tom Bell, Albert Inkpin, Ernest Belfort Bax, Will Thorne, Ben Tillett, Valentine McEntee, 1st Baron McEntee, Dora Montefiore, Charlotte Despard, Sam Mainwaring, Theodore Rothstein, Con Lehane, Ernest John Bartlett Allen, Tommy Lewis, Jim Connell, Maltman Barry, John Barlas, Edward Hartley, Thomas A. Jackson, Tom Kennedy, James MacDonald, Charles Lapworth, Jack Fitzgerald, Dan Irving, Hans Neumann, John Joseph Jones, Henry W. Lee, Ambrose Barker, Jack Tanner, Jack Kent, George Yates, Hubert Bland, Zelda Kahan, Hunter Watts, John Bruce Glasier, Fred Knee, Alexander Anderson, Herbert Burrows, Justice, Henry Martin, Socialist Union, Horace Hawkins, Alf Watts, Helen Taylor, A. S. Albery, Labour Representation Committee. Excerpt: William Morris (24 March 1834 ¿ 3 October 1896) was an English textile designer, artist, writer, and socialist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement. He founded a design firm in partnership with the artist Edward Burne-Jones, and the poet and artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti which profoundly influenced the decoration of churches and houses into the early 20th century. He was also a major contributor to reviving traditional textile arts and methods of production, and one of the founders of the SPAB, now a statutory element in the preservation of historic buildings in the UK. Morris wrote and published poetry, fiction, and translations of ancient and medieval texts throughout his life. His best-known works include The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems (1858), The Earthly Paradise (1868¿1870), A Dream of John Ball (1888) and the utopian News from Nowhere (1890). He was an important figure in the emergence of socialism in Britain, founding the Socialist League in 1884, but breaking with that organization over goals and methods by the end of the decade. He devoted much of the rest of his life to the Kelmscott Press, which he founded in 1891. The 1896 Kelmscott edition of the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer is considered a masterpiece of book design. William Morris was born in Walthamstow on 24 March 1834, the third child and the eldest son of William Morris, a partner in the firm of Sanderson & Co., bill brokers in the City of London. His mother was Emma Morris née Shelton, daughter of Joseph Shelton, a teacher of music in Worcester. As a child Morris was delicate but studious. He learned to read early, and by the time he was four years old he was familiar with most of the Waverley novels. When he was six the family moved to Woodford Hall, where new opportunities for an out-of-door life brought the boy health and vigour. He rode about Epping Forest, sometimes in a toy suit of armour, where he became a close observer of animal n