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William Morris
William Morris was an English textile designer, poet, artist, writer and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts movement and the revival of traditional British textile arts. In 1861 he founded the decorative arts firm Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. with Edward Burne-Jones, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Philip Webb and others, designing tapestries, wallpaper, fabrics, furniture and stained glass; from 1875 it was Morris & Co. His poems and novels, among them the utopian News from Nowhere (1890), helped to establish the modern fantasy genre. He founded the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings in 1877, the Socialist League in 1884 and the Kelmscott Press in 1891.
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