ABSTRACT
Emma Lazarus was a Jewish-American author, poet, and activist. Early in July the roses fairly run riot in the garden-like county of Surrey; all along the railway the little village stations are walled with thickly flowering vines, or hedged with blooming bushes. The religious establishment dates back to the beginning of the twelfth century, when Gilbert Norman, sheriff of Surrey, built a convent for canons of the order of St. Austin. In making the personal acquaintance of one whose artistic work is familiar and admirable to the reader, the main interest must ever be to trace the subtle, elusive connection between the man and his creation. Among such men stands William Morris, and however wild and visionary his hopes and aspirations for the people may appear to outsiders, his magnanimity must command respect. No thwarted ambitions, no stunted capacities, no narrow, sordid aims have ranged him on the side of the disaffected, the agitator, the outcast.
