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of nine children. Despite the boorish Welsh blood, the family had done quite well for themselves" (Wise-Lawrence, 2003). As he grew up, William was fascinated with anything that was of
the medieval period. He "loved the romantic chivalry and simplicity of anything medieval (later he said he felt hed been born out of his time). He read Walter Scott; his
parents even got him a pony so he could play knight" (Wise-Lawrence, 2003). Apparently he was a happy, if not also a spoiled, child. He was also noted as being
temperamental. Interestingly enough, "Much later his daughter Jenny was diagnosed with epilepsy, and he often wondered if some of his rages werent epilepsy (or Tourettes) related" (Wise-Lawrence, 2003). As
a child he was also incredibly close to one of his sisters, Emma. And, being a romantic of sorts, he wrote poetry in later childhood/adolescence, which was inspired by "Chaucer,
Tennyson, Keats and Browning. His romantic attachment to the natural world was already forming and evolving" and would later become part of his art (Wise-Lawrence, 2003). "His textiles --furniture, wall
paper and fabric designs-- were to become the epitome of the organic, which was so much a part of his perception of reality. While religiously agnostic, the physical world was
forever jolting him by its sheer majesty, giving him what we would now call an almost spiritual global sense" (Wise-Lawrence, 2003). He attended Exeter College at Oxford in
1853 and it was there that he met Ned Burne-Jones. "Morris and Burne-Jones found a common passion for medievalism, particularly the Arthurian legends. Together, they toured the great Gothic cathedrals
of France. They would remain lifelong friends" (Wise-Lawrence, 2003). A few years later, in 1856, he left school and moved, with Ned, "to Red Lion Square....Morris was receiving a generous
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