Nineteenth-century author William Morris portrayed a vision of this in his novel entitled News from Nowhere.
Nineteenth-century English poet, designer, painter, decorator and author William Morris portrayed a vision of utopia in his novel entitled News from Nowhere. Published in 1891, News from Nowhere describes a utopian fantasy in which people return to handicrafts. The ideas in the novel reflected the emphatic socialist views Morris would further explore in How I Became a Socialist, published in 1896. A pioneer of the British socialist movement, Morris was apprenticed to an architect and later founded a manufacturing and decorating firm. He was of the Pre-Raphaelite school with a taste for simplicity and beauty in art and literature. Born in 1834, Morris died in 1896.
