Jan Marsh is a British writer and curator who is an expert on the

Victorian period In the history of the United Kingdom and the British Empire, the Victorian era was the period of Queen Victoria's reign, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901. The era followed the Georgian period and preceded the Edwardian ...

and particularly the Pre-Raphaelites and

William Morris William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was a British textile designer, poet, artist, novelist, architectural conservationist, printer, translator and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts Movement. He ...

. Marsh is president of the

William Morris Society The William Morris Society was founded in 1955 in London, England. The Society's office and museum are located at Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, where Morris lived from 1879 until his death in 1896. The Society aims to make more well-known th ...

, a trustee of the

William Morris Gallery The William Morris Gallery is a museum devoted to the life and works of William Morris, an English Arts and Crafts designer and early socialist. It is located in Walthamstow at Water House, a substantial Grade II* listed Georgian home. The ext ...

and a fellow of the

Royal Historical Society The Royal Historical Society, founded in 1868, is a learned society of the United Kingdom which advances scholarly studies of history. Origins The society was founded and received its royal charter in 1868. Until 1872 it was known as the Histori ...

Selected publications

*''Bloomsbury Women: Distinct Figures in Life and Art''. Henry Holt & Co., 1996. * ''Spoken, Broken and Bloody English: The Story of George Bernard Shaw, Linguaphone and Eliza Doolittle'', London: Linguaphone Institute, 2002. With foreword by Lord Quirk. *''William Morris and Red House: A Collaboration Between Architect and Owner''. National Trust Books, 2005. *''A Guide to Victorian and Edwardian Portraits''. London: National Portrait Gallery in association with the National Trust, 2011. (With

Peter Funnell Peter Funnell is Curator of Nineteenth-Century Portraits and Head of Research Programmes at the National Portrait Gallery, London. Funnell studied English and the History of Art at University College London and completed his doctorate in the Hi ...

) *''The Pre-Raphaelite Circle''. London: National Portrait Gallery. *''The Collected Letters of Jane Morris''. Boydell & Brewer, 2012. (Editor with Frank C. Sharp) *''Christina Rossetti: A Literary Biography''. London:

Faber & Faber Faber and Faber Limited, usually abbreviated to Faber, is an independent publishing house in London. Published authors and poets include T. S. Eliot (an early Faber editor and director), W. H. Auden, Margaret Storey, William Golding, Samuel ...

, 2012.

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*http://janmarsh.blogspot.co.uk Living people British art curators British non-fiction writers British art historians British women art historians British art critics Alumni of the University of Cambridge Alumni of the University of Sussex Year of birth missing (living people) Fellows of the Royal Historical Society People associated with the National Portrait Gallery {{UK-writer-stub