William Morris was the son of a stock-broker and Jane Burden was the daughter of a stablehand. He was raised in a mansion in Walthamstow (now the William Morris Gallery) and she grew up in a hovel in Oxford. Had she not been talent-spotted by Dante Gabriel Rossetti when she was leaving the theatre one
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A Principled Stand “ The word Revolution, which we Socialists are so often forced to use, has a terrible sound in most people's ears, even when we have…