Jan Marsh

Jan Marsh (born 5 October 1942) is a British writer and curator who is an expert on the Victorian period and particularly the Pre-Raphaelites and William Morris. Marsh is a former president of the William Morris Society, a trustee of the William Morris Gallery and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Selected publications Edward Thomas: A Poet for His Country. London: Paul Elek, 1978. Back to the Land: The Pastoral Impulse in Victorian England from 1880 to 1914. London: Quartet, 1982. Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood. London: Quartet Books, 1985. Jane and May Morris: A Biographical Story 1839-1938. Rivers Oram Press/Pandora List, 1986. Pre-Raphaelite Women: Images of Femininity in Pre-Raphaelite Art. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. London: Sphere, 1987. (co-authored with Pamela Gerrish Nunn) The Legend of Elizabeth Siddal. London: Quartet, 1989. The Woman's Domain: Women and the English Country House. London: Viking, 1990. (co-authored with Trevor Lummis) Christina Rossetti: A Literary Biography. London: Jonathan Cape, 1994. Bloomsbury Women: Distinct Figures in Life and Art. London: Pavilion Book, 1995. The Pre-Raphaelites: Their Lives in Letters and Diaries. London: Trafalgar Square, 1996. The Pre-Raphaelites. London: National Portrait Gallery, 1998. (Character Sketches series) Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Painter and Poet. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999. Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Collected Writings. London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1999. Christina Rossetti: Selected Poems. London: Phoenix, 2002. (editor) Spoken, Broken and Bloody English: The Story of George Bernard Shaw, Linguaphone and Eliza Doolittle, London: Linguaphone Institute, 2002. With foreword by Lord Quirk. Black Victorians: Black People in British Art 1800-1900. London: Lund Humphries, 2005. (editor) William Morris and Red House: A Collaboration Between Architect and Owner. National Trust Books, 2005. The Pre-Raphaelite Circle. London: National Portrait Gallery, 2005. (Insights series) A Guide to Victorian and Edwardian Portraits. London: National Portrait Gallery in association with the National Trust, 2011. (co-authored with Peter Funnell) The Pre-Raphaelite Circle. London: National Portrait Gallery. The Collected Letters of Jane Morris. Boydell & Brewer, 2012. (co-editor with Frank C. Sharp) Rossetti's Obsession: Images of Jane Morris. Bradford Museums and Galleries, 2014. The Illustrated Letters and Diaries of the Pre-Raphaelites. London: Batsford, 2018. (editor) Aubrey Beardsley: Decadence and Desire. London: Thames & Hudson, 2020. Elizabeth Siddal: Her Story. London: Pallas Athene, 2024.