William Morris (1834-1896). Artist, writer, poet, designer, publisher and political activist, he put into practice many of Ruskin 's ideas on the close relationship between art and society. At Oxford he and Edward Burne-Jones founded the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine. Articled briefly to the architect, G. E. Street, whose admiration of Gothic architecture he shared, Morris joined Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Burne-Jones, and others in painting the frescoes in the Oxford Union. A collection of poetry, The Defence of Guinevere and other poems, was published in the same year. He married Jane Burden, the model for many of Rossetti's most famous paintings, in 1859. His love of mediaeval architecture resulted in the building of the Red House, which he designed together with Philip Webb, and the founding of Morris, Marshall, Faulkener and Co., dedicated to the design and production of domestic furnishings using traditional methods of craftsmanship. During the 1880s and 1890s he became more involved in politics, founding the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings in 1877, and the Socialist League in 1884. Continuing to promote his ideals in poetry and prose during the 1880s and 90s, he founded the Kelmscott Press in 1890.