Elizabeth Burden was a British embroiderer and teacher.
11 Facts About Elizabeth Burden
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Elizabeth Burden was the sister of Jane Morris and sister-in-law of the artist, designer and poet, William Morris.
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Elizabeth Burden was born in Oxford on 13 December 1841 in Oxford, at Brazier Passage, Holywell.
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Elizabeth Burden was baptised on 24 April 1842 in the local St Peter-in-the-East church.
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Elizabeth Burden was the youngest child of Robert and Anne Burden; her siblings were Mary Ann, William and Jane.
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Elizabeth Burden sat mostly for Rossetti as a model for Queen Guinevere and afterwards for William Morris, whom she would later marry in 1859.
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In 1865, a few months before the Morris family left Red House, Robert Elizabeth Burden died and Elizabeth Burden moved in with her sister and brother-in-law.
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In early 1873, Elizabeth Burden took up a position teaching embroidery at the Royal School of Needlework, around the same time she moved to 100 Southampton Row, Russell Square, London.
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Elizabeth Burden only taught at the RSN for a couple of months before she left, having fallen out with head of the school, Mrs Welby, over a misunderstanding regarding the exhibiting of a student's work under Burden's name.
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Elizabeth Burden later returned to the RSN in April 1875, remaining there until 1877.
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Some time after 1901, Elizabeth Burden moved to Redhill, Surrey, where she found a position at Boldrewood, a school for young ladies, most probably giving needlework instruction.