Jan Marsh


Jan Marsh is a British writer and curator who is an expert on the Victorian period and particularly the Pre-Raphaelites and William Morris.
Marsh is president of the William Morris Society, a trustee of the William Morris Gallery and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Selected publications

  • Edward Thomas: A Poet for His Country. London: Paul Elek, 1978.
  • Back to the Land: The Pastoral Impulse in Victorian England from 1880 to 1914. London: Quartet, 1982.
  • Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood. London: Quartet Books, 1985.
  • Jane and May Morris: A Biographical Story 1839-1938. Rivers Oram Press/Pandora List, 1986.
  • Pre-Raphaelite Women: Images of Femininity in Pre-Raphaelite Art. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987.
  • Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. London: Sphere, 1987.
  • The Legend of Elizabeth Siddal. London: Quartet, 1989.
  • The Woman's Domain: Women and the English Country House. London: Viking, 1990.
  • Christina Rossetti: A Literary Biography. London: Jonathan Cape, 1994.
  • Bloomsbury Women: Distinct Figures in Life and Art. London: Pavilion Book, 1995.
  • The Pre-Raphaelites: Their Lives in Letters and Diaries. London: Trafalgar Square, 1996.
  • The Pre-Raphaelites. London: National Portrait Gallery, 1998.
  • Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Painter and Poet. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999.
  • Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Collected Writings. London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1999.
  • Christina Rossetti: Selected Poems. London: Phoenix, 2002.
  • Spoken, Broken and Bloody English: The Story of George Bernard Shaw, Linguaphone and Eliza Doolittle, London: Linguaphone Institute, 2002. With foreword by Lord Quirk.
  • Black Victorians: Black People in British Art 1800-1900. London: Lund Humphries, 2005.
  • William Morris and Red House: A Collaboration Between Architect and Owner. National Trust Books, 2005.
  • The Pre-Raphaelite Circle. London: National Portrait Gallery, 2005.
  • A Guide to Victorian and Edwardian Portraits. London: National Portrait Gallery in association with the National Trust, 2011.
  • The Pre-Raphaelite Circle. London: National Portrait Gallery.
  • The Collected Letters of Jane Morris. Boydell & Brewer, 2012.
  • Rossetti's Obsession: Images of Jane Morris. Bradford Museums and Galleries, 2014.
  • The Illustrated Letters and Diaries of the Pre-Raphaelites. London: Batsford, 2018.
  • Aubrey Beardsley: Decadence and Desire. London: Thames & Hudson, 2020.
  • Elizabeth Siddal: Her Story. London: Pallas Athene, 2024.