Kelmscott Manor relationship with its setting, especially its garden. The Manor is featured in Morris' work "News from Nowhere". It also appears in the background of "Water Willow", a portrait of his wife, Jane Morris, painted by Dante Gabriel Rossetti in 1871. After William Morris's death in 1896, the Manor continued to be occupied by his widow, Jane Morris (who purchased it in 1913) and later, his daughters. May Morris died in 1938 and bequeathed the house to Oxford University, on the basis the contents were preserved and the public were granted access. The University were unwilling to preserve the house as
Dante Gabriel Rossetti one of his "Three Songs" (1926), Rossetti's poem "The One Hope" from "Poems" (1870). In 1904 Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) created his song cycle "The House of Life" from six poems by Rossetti. One song in that cycle, Silent Noon, is one of Vaughan Williams's best known and most frequently performed songs. In 1904, Phoebe Anna Traquair painted "The Awakening", inspired by a sonnet from Rosetti's "The House of Life". "Rossetti divided his attention between painting and poetry for the rest of his life" - Poetry Foundation Dante Gabriel Rossetti Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti (12 May 1828 – 9 April