Jan Marsh (born 5 October 1942) 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 reign of Queen Victoria, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901. Slightly different definitions are sometimes used. The era followed th ...

and particularly the

Pre-Raphaelites The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB), later known as the Pre-Raphaelites, was a group of English painters, poets, and art critics, founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti ...

and

William Morris William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was an English textile designer, poet, artist, writer, and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts movement. He was a major contributor to the revival of traditiona ...

. Marsh is president of the William Morris Society, 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 extens ...

and a fellow of the

Royal Historical Society The Royal Historical Society (RHS), 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 H ...

Selected publications

*''Edward Thomas: A Poet for His Country''. London: Paul Elek, 1978. *''Back to the Land: The Pastoral Impulse in Victorian England from 1880 to 1914''. London: Quartet, 1982. *''Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood''. London: Quartet Books, 1985. *''Jane and May Morris: A Biographical Story 1839-1938''. Rivers Oram Press/Pandora List, 1986. *''Pre-Raphaelite Women: Images of Femininity in Pre-Raphaelite Art''. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987. *''Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement''. London: Sphere, 1987. (co-authored with Pamela Gerrish Nunn) *''The Legend of Elizabeth Siddal''. London: Quartet, 1989. *''The Woman's Domain: Women and the English Country House''. London: Viking, 1990. (co-authored with

Trevor Lummis Trevor Lummis (25 August 1930 – 23 September 2013) was an English writer and historian. He was Honorary Treasurer of the Oral History Society and held an Honorary Fellowship in the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex. Early o ...

) *''Christina Rossetti: A Literary Biography''. London: Jonathan Cape, 1994. *''Bloomsbury Women: Distinct Figures in Life and Art''. London: Pavilion Book, 1995. *''The Pre-Raphaelites: Their Lives in Letters and Diaries''. London: Trafalgar Square, 1996. *''The Pre-Raphaelites''. London: National Portrait Gallery, 1998. (Character Sketches series) *''Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Painter and Poet''. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999. *''Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Collected Writings''. London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1999. *''Christina Rossetti: Selected Poems''. London: Phoenix, 2002. (editor) *''Spoken, Broken and Bloody English: The Story of George Bernard Shaw, Linguaphone and Eliza Doolittle'', London: Linguaphone Institute, 2002. With foreword by Lord Quirk. *''Black Victorians: Black People in British Art 1800-1900''. London: Lund Humphries, 2005. (editor) *''William Morris and Red House: A Collaboration Between Architect and Owner''. National Trust Books, 2005. *''The Pre-Raphaelite Circle''. London: National Portrait Gallery, 2005. (Insights series) *''A Guide to Victorian and Edwardian Portraits''. London: National Portrait Gallery in association with the National Trust, 2011. (co-authored with Peter Funnell) *''The Pre-Raphaelite Circle''. London: National Portrait Gallery. *''The Collected Letters of Jane Morris''.

Boydell & Brewer Boydell & Brewer is an academic press based in Martlesham, Suffolk, England, that specializes in publishing historical and critical works. In addition to British and general history, the company publishes three series devoted to studies, editio ...

, 2012. (co-editor with Frank C. Sharp) *''Rossetti's Obsession: Images of Jane Morris''. Bradford Museums and Galleries, 2014. *''The Illustrated Letters and Diaries of the Pre-Raphaelites''. London: Batsford, 2018. (editor) *''Aubrey Beardsley: Decadence and Desire''. London: Thames & Hudson, 2020. *''Elizabeth Siddal: Her Story''. London: Pallas Athene, 2024.

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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