Jane Morris Jane Morris Jane Morris (née Jane Burden; 19 October 1839 – 26 January 1914) was an embroiderer and English artists' model who embodied the Pre-Raphaelite ideal of beauty. She was a model and muse to William Morris (1834–1896), the English textile designer, poet, novelist, translator, and socialist activist, whom she later married, and to Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Jane Burden was born in Oxford, the daughter of a stableman, Robert Burden, and his wife Ann Maizey, who was a laundress. At the time of her birth, her parents were living at St Helen's Passage, in the parish of St Peter-in-the-East, off
The Mistress (TV series) each of six 30 minute episodes, from 17 January 1985 to 26 February 1987. The episodes originally at 9.00pm on Thursdays on BBC2. The two series of "The Mistress" will be released in a boxset in Region 2 (UK) on 10 March 2014. The Mistress (TV series) The Mistress is a British sitcom that aired on BBC2 from 1985 to 1987. Starring Felicity Kendal and Jane Asher, it was written by Carla Lane. "The Mistress" features Kendal playing Maxine, a young florist who is having an affair with a married man, whose wife was played by Jane Asher. It was