"The Society of the Future"

Title"The Society of the Future"
Year for Search1889
AuthorsMorris, William(1834-1896)
Secondary TitleThe Commonweal
Volume / Edition5.168 - 70
Pagination98-99, 108-09, 114-15
Date PublishedMarch 30 - April 13, 1889
KeywordsEnglish author, Male author
Annotation

Essay with a eutopia similar to his 1890 News From Nowhere. See also 1884, 1886-87, and 1887, and 1890 Morris. 

Additional Publishers

Rpt. in May Morris, William Morris Artist Writer Socialist. Volume the Second Morris as a Socialist With an Account of William Morris As I Knew Him By Bernard Shaw (Oxford, Eng.: Basil Blackwell, 1936), 453-68. Rpt. (New York: Russell & Russell, 1966), 453-68; and in his How I Became a Socialist. Ed. Owen Holland (London: Verso, 2020), 142-55, with editorial notes on 206-09.

Info Notes

This lecture was originally given in 1888.

For details on Morris’s publications and studies on all aspects of Morris’s career, see David Latham and Sheila Latham, An Annotated Critical Bibliography of William Morris. London: Harvester Wheatsheaf/New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1991 and studies on all aspects of Morris’s career; and Eugene D. LeMire, A Bibliography of William Morris. London: British Library/New Castle, DL: Oak Knoll Press, 2006.

Holding Institutions

ExU, L, L(NL), PU

Author Note

(1834-96)

Full Text

1889 Morris, William (1834-96). “The Society of the Future.” The Commonweal 5.168 - 70 (March 30 - April 13, 1889): 98-99, 108-09, 114-15. Rpt. in May Morris, William Morris Artist Writer Socialist. Volume the Second Morris as a Socialist With an Account of William Morris As I Knew Him By Bernard Shaw (Oxford, Eng.: Basil Blackwell, 1936), 453-68. Rpt. (New York: Russell & Russell, 1966), 453-68; and in his How I Became a Socialist. Ed. Owen Holland (London: Verso, 2020), 142-55, with editorial notes on 206-09. This lecture was originally given in 1888. ExU, L, L(NL), PU

Essay with a eutopia similar to his 1890 News From Nowhere. See also 1884, 1886-87, 1887, and 1890 Morris. For details on Morris’s publications and studies on all aspects of Morris’s career, see David Latham and Sheila Latham, An Annotated Critical Bibliography of William Morris. London: Harvester Wheatsheaf/New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1991 and studies on all aspects of Morris’s career; and Eugene D. LeMire, A Bibliography of William Morris. London: British Library/New Castle, DL: Oak Knoll Press, 2006.