May Morris: the designer's daughter determined not to be outdone

A new exhibition of unseen artefacts, including a childhood journal, reveals a talent to rival that of William MorrisThe eight-year-old May Morris was not easily impressed. She might be staying in a proper medieval castle with battlements and turrets, one of two owned by the grandest friend of her father, William Morris, but she was not prepared to be overawed by its splendour. “The glen is most beautiful and the air smells so sweet,” she wrote. But she added: “The garden is no