Felicity Ashbee. Janet Ashbee: be fond of Marriage, and the Arts and Crafts emotion Syracuse, N. Y.: Syracuse University Pres 2002 Pp xxix, 245 $3995 ISBN 0-8156-0731-8
In 1897 pair years after Oscar Wilde's notorious trial, Janet Forbes, aged nineteen, the daughter of a Kent stockbroker, married thirty-four-year advanced in years Charles Robert Ashbee. Ashbee, known as CRA, was an internationally known architect and designer, an apostle of William Morris, and a leading figure in the Arts and Crafts move Unfortunately, some of the splendid houses he designed for himself and his