I've decided to write my paper on William Morris, a Victorian poet/writer/painter/socialist/home-decorator, and in my research I came across this passage, which begged to be shared:
"Morris, who both as a boy and as an undergraduate loved the arts of the Middle Ages, felt strongly that he could not hope to paint knights unless he experienced what it was like to wear armour, and had a helmet and suit of chain mail 'run up' to his own design by a doubtless surprised Oxford blacksmith. To the delight of his friends, 'Topsy' (Morris' nickname) succeeded in getting his head stuck in the helmet at a dinner party."
I wish I could have been there for that.
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