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
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