Postcard from May Morris to Sir Herbert Thompson

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Date: 1900-1910
Dimensions: 16.4 x 10.6
Object Type: photograph
Material: photograph
Catalogue number: P808
Sitter: King (neé Morris), Sarah Emma (1828 - 23.08.1921)
Credit notes: Presented by C.E. Robins, 2007

Sarah Emma King (neé Morris) was first cousin of William Morris. Her father was John Morris, brother to William Morris Snr (William Morris’s father).

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Date: c.1870-1880
Object Type: photograph
Material: photograph
Catalogue number: P806
Photographer: Robert Faulkner & Co.
Sitter: Howard (née Stanley), Rosalind Frances, Countess of Carlisle (1845 - 1921)
Credit notes: Presented by C.E. Robins, 2007

Rosalind Frances Howard, Countess of Carlisle and her husband George were good friends of the Morris family. The two families went on holidays together in Italy and the Morrises frequently stayed with them at their home Naworth Castle in Cumberland. Rosalind was called ‘The Radical Countess’ due to her campaigning for women’s political rights and of temperance reform. Besides having eleven children, she helped managed the family estates, and was an active member of local government. In 1890 she became a member of the Women’s Liberal Federation and persuaded the organisation to support extending the suffrage to all women.

Material: photograph

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