Chapters

1. Discussion and Bed
2. A Morning Bath
3. The Guest-House and Breakfast Therein
4. A Market by the Way
5. Children on the Road
6. A Little Shopping
7. Trafalgar Square
8. An Old Friend
9. Concerning Love
10. Questions and Answers
11. Concerning Government
12. Concerning the Arrangement of Life
13. Concerning Politics
14. How Matters are Managed
15. On the lack of Incentive to Labour in a Communist Society
16. Dinner in the Hall of the Bloomsbury Market
17. How the Change Came
18. The Beginning of the New Life
19. The Drive Back to Hammersmith
20. The Hammersmith Guest-House Again
21. Going up the River
22. Hampton Court and a Praiser of Past Times
23. An Early Morning by Runnymede
24. Up The Thames: The Second Day
25. The Third Day on The Thames
26. The Obstinate Refusers
27. The Upper Waters
28. The Little River
29. A Resting-Place on the Upper Thames
30. The Journey's End
31. An Old House Amongst New Folk
32. The Feast's Beginning - The End

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SOURCES USED WITHIN THIS WEBSITE

Text for News From Nowhere taken from the 1890 edition at The University of Adelaide's eBooks collection. All footnotes are by Morris unless otherwise noted. Some paragraphs were split or adjusted to make image references more comprehensible. http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/aut/morris_william.html

• Chapter I
  
  Frontispiece, News from Nowhere, Kelmscott edition.
  
  Coach House, Kelmscott House, Linda Parry, ed., William Morris, Harry N. Abrams Inc.: New York, 1996, p. 62.
  
  Interior of a Victorian Train
  http://www.casebook.org/victorian_london/tubes.html
  
  Photo of the Newer Hammersmith Bridge
  http://www.elvum.net/gallery/hbridge/23_hammersmith_bridge_sunset3
  
  Photo of the older Hammersmith Bridg
  http://www.hafed.org.uk/pages/arc-hammersmith-bridge.asp

Chapter II

• Morris' Bedroom, Kelmscott House, page 579 figures 104 and 105
• MacCarthy, Fiona. William Morris : A Life for Our Time. London: Faber and Faber, 1994
• Kelmscott House, figure 3 page 80
• Thompson, Paul. The Work of William Morris. Oxford University Press. New York. 1993.
• H.M.S. Angler built by Thornycroft
• http://fodm.homestead.com/shipbldg.html
• Ponte Vecchio (historical)
• http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Ponte_Vecchio.html
• Ponte Vecchio (close)
• http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/pontevecchio/ponte.html
• Assortment of coins
• Sheet of Coins
• http://www.j-sainsbury.co.uk/museum/Coins.htm
• Colney Hatch Insane Asylum
• http://www.victorianturkishbath.org/6DIRECTORY/aapix/ColneyHatch_w.htm

Chapter III

• Crosby Hall
• http://www.londonancestor.com/views/vb-crosby.htm
• Kelmscott Dining room, page 580 figure 106
• MacCarthy, Fiona. William Morris : A Life for Our Time. London: Faber and Faber, 1994
• Photo of Morris
• Frederick Hollyer, 1870
• Pollarded Beech, Epping Forest
• http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk/eppingforest04big.html
• An unpollarded beech
• http://www.sizenken.biodic.go.jp/pc/isan_en/s030.htm
• Merton Abbey, page 52
• Merton Abbey carpet weavers, page 53
• Parry, Linda. ed. William Morris. Harry N. Abrams Incorporated, New York, New York: 1996
• "The Bibliomania of the Golden Dustman," by Marcus Stone, page 456
• Dickens, Charles. Our Mutual Friend. Oxford University Press. London. 1963.

Chapter IV

• Contemporary drawing of Hammersmith Market, "In the Broadway, Hammersmith"
• print
• Baptistry at Florence, Italy
• http://www.pbase.com/image/21601981
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti, "Mariana" 1870
• http://www.abcgallery.com/R/rossetti/rossetti36.html
• Sir Hubert Von Herkomer, "On Strike," 1891
• http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/art.asp?aid=882

Chapter V

• Kensington Gardens, early 18th century
• http://www.hrp.org.uk/history/default.asp?sectID=3&id=3
• Kensington Gardens, present-day
• http://www.kensington.net/kensington-gardens.html
• Ebeneezer Howard & associated images
• Garden Cities of To-morrow, frontispiece, Swan Sonnenschein, London: 1902.
• West front of Westminster Abbey, after 1902
• http://www.victorianweb.org/art/architecture/feist/19.html
• Restoration of St. Albans, page 78
• Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, page 80
• Parry, Linda. ed. William Morris. Harry N. Abrams Incorporated, New York, New York: 1996
• Houses of Parliament, 1896
• http://www.victorianlondon.org/ql/queenslondon2.htm
• Houses of Parliament, present-day
• http://users.bigpond.net.au/davids-page/images/houses%20of%20parlament.jpg
• St. Paul's Cathedral, 1896
• http://www.victorianlondon.org/ql/queenslondon5.htm

Chapter VI

• Piccadilly, 1900's
• http://www.victorianlondon.org/districts/piccadilly.htm
• Agate and Bronze pipe from the nineteenth century
• http://www.elalcazar.com/catalog/Antiques:Regional_Art:Asian:Japanese:Metalwork.html
• Glasses designed by Phillip Webb page 196
• Parry, Linda. ed. William Morris. Harry N. Abrams Incorporated, New York, New York: 1996
• Fashion plate featuring wasp-waisted models
• http://web.nwe.ufl.edu/~kchancey/corsetreality.html

Chapter VII

• Trafalgar Square, after 1902
• http://www.victorianweb.org/art/architecture/feist/22.html
• Newgate Prison, 1896
• Cell in Newgate Prison, 1896
• http://www.victorianlondon.org/ql/queenslondon313.htm
• National Gallery, 1896
• http://www.victorianlondon.org/ql/queenslondon7.htm
• Match workers in factory, early 19th century
• http://www.wwnorton.com/nael/images/victorian/worker.jpg

Chapter VIII

• Map of London
• ed. Catherine Peel. Britain London Map: British Tourist Authority, 1986
• South Front of the British Museum, Great Russell Street
• postcard, Trustees of the British Museum, 1976
• former British Library Reading Room, interior
• postcard

Chapter IX

• Photo of Eleanor Marx and others, page 55
• title pages of important works on women's issues, page 52
• Marx-Aveling, Eleanor and Edward Aveling. Thoughts on Women and Society. ed. Joachim Muller and Edith Schotte. International Publishers, New York. 1987.
• "When Adam delved and Eve span who was then the gentleman," frontispiece by Edward Burne-Jones
• Morris, William. A Dream of John Ball and A King's Lesson. Reeves & Turner, 1888.
• The Socialist League Manifesto, figure E.5, page 67
• Parry, Linda. ed. William Morris. Harry N. Abrams Incorporated, New York, New York: 1996

Chapter X

• "View of a Phalangstery," painted by Schets van Charles Daubigny, circa 1848.
• http://www.samenhuizen.be/cohousingdk/images/I.2%20figuren/05.jpg
• Photo of a North American Phalangstery, circa 1900.
• http://www.samenhuizen.be/cohousingdk/images/I.2%20figuren/07.jpg
• Photo of W.T. Stead as an Editor, 1871 or 1883?
• http://www.attackingthedevil.co.uk/gallery/index.php
• "A Death Song" by William Morris, figure 41, page 571
• MacCarthy, Fiona. William Morris : A Life for Our Time. London: Faber and Faber, 1994
• The Pilgrims of Hope and Chants for Socialists
• Morris, William. The Pilgrims of Hope and Chants for Socialists. Longmans, Green & Company New York. 1915.
• Aldgate area and Spitalfields from the Charles Booth poverty map
• http://booth.lse.ac.uk/static/search_map.html
• Canning Town
• Silvertown
• http://www.portcities.org.uk/london/server/show/ConNarrative.78/chapterId/1874/Social-conditions-in-the-19thcentury-port.htm
• Monopoly, figure 40, page 214
• Thompson, Paul. The Work of William Morris. Oxford University Press. New York. 1993.
• Poster, "A Garland for May Day 1895, Dedicated to the Workers by Walter Crane"
• Jackson, Holbrook, The Eighteen-Nineties, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1922, facing page 244.
• Cumberland sites near Grasmere and Windermere
• http://www.rc.umd.edu:7000/10279/
• http://user.chollian.net/~ucnet2003/ENGLISH-WFB%20Europe-UK-England.htm

Chapter XI

• Houses of Parliament, 1896
• http://www.victorianlondon.org/ql/queenslondon2.htm
• Law courts
• http://www.victorianweb.org/art/architecture/street/lawcourts.html

Chapter XII

• Reconstruction of Assize Court at Brecon, 1880
• http://www.gtj.org.uk/item.php?lang=en&id=4173&t=1
• "Massacre at St. Peters," George Cruikshank.
• http://www.learnhistory.org.uk/cpp/yeoman.jpg
• Treadmill at Brixton House of Correction, 1821
• http://learningcurve.pro.gov.uk/candp/punishment/g09/g09cs3s5.htm

Chapter XIII

• Horrebow, N., The Natural History of Iceland, London, 1758. Titlepage and chapter 16.

Chapter XIV

• Law Rock at Thingvellir, Iceland
• http://www.physik.uni-halle.de/~e2od5/island/pcd_1998/thingvellir/1998_102.html

Chapter XV

• Charles Fourier.
• http://w1.131.telia.com/~u13115096/Bilder/charlesFourier.gif
• Fabric weaving sheds at Merton Abbey, figure 95, page 229
• Parry, Linda. ed. William Morris. Harry N. Abrams Incorporated, New York, New York: 1996
• General Charles Gordon
• http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/3/1/0/13103/13103-h/13103-h.htm
• King Leopold of Belgium
• Gallop, Alan, Mr Stanley, I Presume? Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 2004, page 81.
• Stanley posed with a servant, Kalulu
• Gallop, between pages 182 and 183

Chapter XVI

• Queen's Dining Hall, 1866 - 1867
• http://www.uiowa.edu/~english/faculty/boos/galleries/furnituregall
• "Sleeping Beauty" with "Swan" border tiles, figure k.10 page 189
• Parry, Linda. ed. William Morris. Harry N. Abrams Incorporated, New York, New York: 1996
• Lead-glazed pot-ware
• http://nautarch.tamu.edu/portroyal/CHAMBER/Hi_Art/Hi_Pot.JPG

Chapter XVII

• Hammersmith Branch of the Socialist League, Figure 27 page 62
• W. E. Gladstone
• http://www.users.waitrose.com/~victorianphoto/cass/image19.htm
• Police summons for Morris, figure 29 page 62
• Engraving of Riot at Trafalgar Square, figure 30 page 63
• Parry, Linda. ed. William Morris. Harry N. Abrams Incorporated, New York, New York: 1996
• Modern panorama of Trafalgar Square
• http://www.explore-london.co.uk/traf1.html
• "A Death Song" by William Morris, figure 41, page 571
• MacCarthy, Fiona. William Morris : A Life for Our Time. London: Faber and Faber, 1994
• First Edition of Commonweal figure 36 page 506
• MacCarthy, Fiona. William Morris : A Life for Our Time. London: Faber and Faber, 1994

Chapter XVIII

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Chapter XIX

• Daisy curtain, 1860
• http://www.uiowa.edu/~english/faculty/boos/galleries/wallgallery/
• Owl embroidery kit, 1895
• http://www.uiowa.edu/~english/faculty/boos/galleries/wallgallery/
• Bedford Park, London
• http://www.arch.mcgill.ca/prof/schoenauer/arch528/lect08/n08bd.htm

Chapter XX

• "Bella 'righted' by the Golden Dustman," by Marcus Stone, page 601
• Dickens, Charles. Our Mutual Friend. Oxford University Press. London. 1963.
• King René's Honeymoon : Architecture, figure H. 17a, page 123
• King René's Honeymoon : Painting, figure H. 17d, page 123
• Parry, Linda. ed. William Morris. Harry N. Abrams Incorporated, New York, New York: 1996

Chapter XXI

• "Praise of Venus" Book of Verse 1870
• http://www.uiowa.edu/~english/faculty/boos/galleries/illumgallery
• Morris' working smock, figure 45 page 228
• MacCarthy, Fiona. William Morris : A Life for Our Time. London: Faber and Faber, 1994
• Kennet printed silk, 1883
• http://www.uiowa.edu/~english/faculty/boos/galleries/wallgallery/
• 19th century English farm workers
• http://www.geh.org/ne/mismi3/anglian_sld00001.html

Chapter XXII

• Exterior of Hampton Court, photo by Lara E. Eakins
• http://tudorhistory.org/castles/hcp/front.jpg
• "A view of Hampton Court," c1703
• http://www.hrp.org.uk/history/default.asp?sectID=4&id=4
• The King's Apartment, Hampton Court
• http://www.hrp.org.uk/history/default.asp?sectID=4&id=4
• May Morris at work, figure 117 page 585
• MacCarthy, Fiona. William Morris : A Life for Our Time. London: Faber and Faber, 1994

Chapter XXIII

• Bleak and chub
• http://www.btinternet.com/~rmstangroom/
• Fairy garden: Grimm's Fairy Tales
• http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-200/0591-1/%7B484C7B36-EBF0-4C8D-A64B-930C52F45F6D%7DImg200.jpg

Chapter XXIV

• Locks and Weirs
• Eddy, Clyde, Voyaging Down the Thames, New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1938, page 49.
• Windsor Castle
• http://freepages.nostalgia.rootsweb.com/~stermich/windsorarial.jpg
• Canaletto, "Eton College," circa 1754
• http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/cgi-bin/WebObjects.dll/CollectionPublisher.woa/wa/largeImage?workNumber=NG942
• View of Eton College of Thames from Old Windsor lock, 1978
• http://www.mike-stevens.co.uk/reports/cruise1978b/49a45.htm
• Bisham Abbey Manor
• http://www.berkshirehistory.com/castles/bisham_abbey.html
• Near Henley Bridge, circa 1900
• David Gordon Wilson, The Thames: Record of a Working Waterway, London: B.T. Batsford Ltd., 1987, p. 140.
• Medmenham Ferry, circa 1890
• Wilson, David Gordon, The Thames: Record of a Working Waterway, London: B.T. Batsford Ltd., 1987, page 41.

Chapter XXV

• Lock at Pangbourne
• Eddy, Clyde, Voyaging Down the Thames, NewYork: Frederick A. Stokes, 1938, facing page 161.
• Photo of a merlin
• http://home.hccnet.nl/r.goedegebuur/plaatjes/smellekenp1.html
• Drawing of a sparrow-hawk
• Rutgers, Abram, Birds of Europe, illustrated by John Gould, London: Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1966, page 11.
• Photo of a magpie
• http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andy.holt/digiscope/magpie/magpie.jpg
• Photo of a raven
• http://www.whc.net/cdwr/Tour/raven.jpg

Chapter XXVI

• Phillipa Fawcett
• http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/PictDisplay/Fawcett.html

Chapter XXVII

• The White Horse
• http://www.tourist-information-uk.com/white-horse.htm
• Wallingford Bridge
• http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/jim.shead/P09211.jpg
• Charles Stanfield, "The Lotos-Eaters," 1857, engraved by W.J. Linton.
• http://www.victorianweb.org/art/illustration/stanfield/2.html
• Shillingford Bridge in 1916
• http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/jim.shead/MHIWp10a.htm
• Christ Church Meadow, Oxford, from the Thames
• http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~bump/oxford/walk.html
• Library of Exeter
• http://www.exeter.ox.ac.uk/tour/library.htm
• College chapel of Exeter
• http://www.exeter.ox.ac.uk/tour/chapelout.htm
• H. Taunt's photo of the south wall of the nunnery at Godstow
• http://www.dur.ac.uk/k.a.c.rawlinson/gazetteer/entries/godstow/godstow_taunt.htm
• Modern photograph of the south wall
• http://www.dur.ac.uk/k.a.c.rawlinson/gazetteer/entries/godstow/godstow_south.htm

Chapter XXVIII

• River Thames, Lechlade to Teddington Lock
• http://www.latelink.com/thames/layouts/thames%20map2.jpg
• New Bridge
• http://www.the-river-thames.co.uk/bridges.htm
• Hadrian's Wall
• http://www.hadrians-wall.org/template.asp?ID=0&parentID=539

Chapter XXIX

• The Thames near Kelmscott
• http://www.ronemmons.com/biographies/kelmscott/

Chapter XXX

• Radcot Bridge, Older and Newer
• http://www.the-river-thames.co.uk/bridges.htm
• Jane Morris in a blue dress, 1865 figure 14 page 104
• Henderson, Philip. William Morris : His Life Work and Friends. McGraw - Hill Book Company. New York. 1967.
• Photo of Kelmscott Manor with May Morris, 1885 Figure 3 page 18
• Parry, Linda. ed. William Morris. Harry N. Abrams Incorporated, New York, New York: 1996

Chapter XXXI

• Modern photograph of Kelmscott Manor, pages 62 - 63
• Poulson, Christine. William Morris. Shooting Star Press. New York. 1989.
• Photograph of Kelmscott Manor wall
• Kelmscott interior, design by E. H. New
• The Quest IV, November 1895, "Gossip About an Old House on the Upper Thames."
• Tapestry Room, Kelmscott Manor
• http://www.uiowa.edu/~english/faculty/boos/galleries/furnituregall
• Morris's bed at Kelmscott Manor: curtain embroidered by May Morris
• http://www.uiowa.edu/~english/faculty/boos/galleries/furnituregall
• Photograph of painting of Jane Morris by D.G. Rossetti
• Attic at Kelmscott Manor
• http://www.uiowa.edu/~english/faculty/boos/galleries/furnituregall
• Back view of Kelmscott Manor, toward garden
• http://www.computer-therapy.com/eph54/images/11Kelmscott.jpg

Chapter XXXII

• Photograph of Kelmscott Church
• Shahnameh cover sheet
• http://www.farhangsara.com/miniature_gal.htm
• Notes about Shahnameh were taken from
• Leopold, David, ed. William Morris: News From Nowhere or An Epoch of Rest Being Some Chapter From a Utopian Romance. Oxford University Press. 2003.
• Morris's grave in Kelmscott churchyard
• http://www.ronemmons.com/biographies/kelmscott/
• Sir Hubert Von Herkomer, "Hard Times," 1885
• http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/art.asp?aid=882

 

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