“Athenæum” and other Memories

Abstract

Surviving to a great age, I maintain a vivid interest in literature and journalism. I was pleased therefore to receive from the Editor an issue of the LIBRARY REVIEW, also a copy of his ingenious account of William Morris as Seen by his Contemporaries. These contemporaries were more likely to know what Morris's character was than the many later biographers who had never seen him or heard him talk, or, when they had, had used the reticence familiar in Victorian biographers. I appreciate the judgements made on the important Life of Morris by Prof. J. W. Mackail, which cannot be called a classic, ignoring as it does, for instance, the connexion between Morris's wife and Rossetti, which was well known to me and others who were waiting for somebody to reveal it.

Citation

RENDALL, V. (1958), "“Athenæum” and other Memories", Library Review, Vol. 16 No. 5, pp. 302-305. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb012282