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How We Might Live
- Author
- Suzanne Fagence Cooper
- Narrator
- Jane Collingwood
- Publisher
- Quercus
- Publish Date
- 9 June 2022
- Run Time
- 16 hours 30 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
In truth, Jane and William's personal and creative partnership was the central collaboration of both their lives. The homes they made together - the Red House, Kelmscott Manor and their houses in London - were works of art in themselves, and the great labour of their lives was life itself: through their houses and the objects they filled them with, they explored how we all might live a life more focused on beauty and fulfilment.
In How We Might Live, Suzanne Fagence Cooper explores the lives and legacies of Jane and William Morris, finally giving Jane's work the attention it deserves and taking us inside two lives of unparalleled creative artistry.
(P)2022 Quercus Editions Limited
Critics Review
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Lyrical...enjoyable
Mail on Sunday
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Jane is fortunate in her biographer
The Times
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Well researched and extensive
BBC History Magazine
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Fascinating
The Field
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[Cooper] traces the Morrises' shared and separate lives with clarity and judicious assessment
History Today
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Fagence Cooper succeeds, against the odds, in restoring some reality to our view of Jane Morris, giving a proper sense of a woman with striking gifts and talents identifiably her own
Literary Review
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Delightful, accessible and insightful
Church Times
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Jane Morris's creative influence on her husband's design empire has finally been revealed in a new book [...] the first joint biography of the couple will shine a light on their personal and creative partnership, and reassert the rightful place of Jane Morris - a skilled embroiderer and talented designer - in the history books.
Guardian
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Details
- Author
- Suzanne Fagence Cooper
- Narrator
- Jane Collingwood
- Duration
- 16 hours 30 minutes
- Release Date
- 9 June 2022
- ISBN
- 9781529423686
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Quercus
- Genre
- Biography: arts and entertainment
Synopsis
William Morris - poet, designer, campaigner, hero of the Arts & Crafts movement - was a giant of the Victorian age, and his beautiful creations and provocative philosophies are still with us today: but his wife Jane is too often relegated to a footnote, an artist's model given no history or personality of her own. In truth, Jane and William's personal and creative partnership was the central collaboration of both their lives. The homes they made together - the Red House, Kelmscott Manor and their houses in London - were works of art in themselves, and the great labour of their lives was life itself: through their houses and the objects they filled them with, they explored how we all might live a life more focused on beauty and fulfilment.In How We Might Live, Suzanne Fagence Cooper explores the lives and legacies of Jane and William Morris, finally giving Jane's work the attention it deserves and taking us inside two lives of unparalleled creative artistry.(P)2022 Quercus Editions Limited
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