On 28 Dec 1840 Jane Morris nee Burden (age 1) was baptised at St Peter-in-the-East Church.

In 1851 the Census records [her father] Robert Burden Stableman (age 41), Groom, [her mother] Ann Maizey Domestic Servant (age 45), [her brother] William Burden (age 14), Jane Morris nee Burden (age 11) and [her sister] Elizabeth Burden (age 9) living at 1 King's Head Gardens.

In Oct 1857 Jane Morris nee Burden (age 17) and her sister [her sister] Elizabeth Burden (age 15) attended a performance of the Drury Lane Theatre Company in Oxford. Jane Burden was noticed by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (age 29) and Edward Burne-Jones (age 24) who asked her to model for them.

1858. [her future husband] William Morris (age 23). "La Belle Iseult", sometimes referred to as "Queen Guinevere", is Morris' only surviving easel painting, now in the Tate Gallery. The model Jane Morris nee Burden (age 18), his future wife.

1858. George Herbert Watkins (age 30). Photograph of Jane Morris nee Burden (age 18).

After 26 Apr 1859 [her husband] William Morris (age 25) and Jane Morris nee Burden (age 19) moved to the Red House.

Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones 1860. Oh, how happy we were, Janey (age 20) and I, busy in the morning with needlework or wood-engraving, and in the afternoon driving to explore the country round by the help of a map of Kent; we went to the Crays one day and to Chislehurst Common another, finding some fresh pleasure everywhere and bringing back tales of our adventures to amuse the men we had left working at home. Sometimes, but not often, they would go with us, for Edward always hated "expeditions," and was only supported in them by good fellowship; nor did he at any time seek the country for its own sake. At this I have often wondered, for the backgrounds of his pictures shew how deeply it touched his imagination and feeling: and I came to the conclusion that one reason why he found so little peace and rest in it might be that he did not, and perhaps could not, submit himself passively to its influence, but was for ever dealing with it as an instrument. In a note written to his father during this very visit to Red House he says, "I hate the country - apples only keep me in good spirits - Topsy's garden is perfectly laden with them." I remember his dread of anything that appealed to the sadness which he shared with all imaginative natures, who "don't need to be made to feel," he said, and I believe that this "hatred" was partly an instinct of self-preservation from the melancholy of autumn in the country.

The Niebelungen Lied design of which Edward speaks was never finished, and if it was begun upon the back of either of the beautiful "Salutations of Beatrice" which Rossetti (age 32) painted on the outside of the doors of the big settle, it may perhaps still remain there.

Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones 1860. It will be taken for granted that the two men visitors had endless jokes together at the expense of their beloved host. The dinner hour, at middle day, was a great time for them because Mrs Morris (age 20) and I were there, either as eager onlookers at the fun or to take sides for and against The dining-room was not yet finished, and the drawing-room upstairs, whose beautiful ceiling had been painted by Mr. and Mrs. Morris, was being decorated in different ways, so Morris' studio, which was on the same floor, was used for living in, and a most cheerful place it was, with windows looking three ways and a little horizontal slip of a window over the door, giving upon the red-tiled roof of the house where we could see birds hopping about all unconscious of our gaze.

Perhaps the joke which made two out of the three men happiest at dinner-time was that of sending Morris to Coventry for some slight cause and refusing to exchange a word with him at his own table: it was carried on with an unflinching audacity that I cannot hope to describe, and occasionally reached the height of their asking Mrs. Morris if she would be good enough to communicate with her husband for them and tell him anything they wished to say - but a stranger coming in upon our merriment would never have guessed from the faces of the company who were the teasers and who the teased.

Around 25 Dec 1860. Dante Gabriel Rossetti (age 32). Portrait of Mrs William Morris aka Jane Morris nee Burden (age 21). Signed top-left Upton (ie the Red House) Xmas 1860.

1861. The Census records [her husband] William Morris (age 26), Jane Morris nee Burden (age 21), Algernon Charles Swinburne (age 23), Visitor, four servants and [her daughter] Jane Alicia Morris at Red House.

Around 1864. Unknown Photographer. Jane Morris nee Burden (age 24) and [her daughter] Jane Alicia Morris (age 2).

1864. Edward Coley Burne-Jones 1st Baronet (age 30). Portrait of Jane Morris nee Burden (age 24), and his sisters-in-law Alice Macdonald (age 26), Agnes Macdonald Lady Poynter (age 21) and Louisa Macdonald (age 19) listening to his wife Georgiana (age 23) reading aloud.

Alice Macdonald: On 04 Apr 1837 she was born to Reverend George Browne Macdonald and Hannah Jones at Birmingham, Warwickshire. On 18 Mar 1865 John Lockwood Kipling and she were married at St Mary Abbots Church, Kensington. On 22 Nov 1910 she died. She was buried at St John's Church, Tisbury.

Louisa Macdonald: In 1845 she was born to Reverend George Browne Macdonald and Hannah Jones at Birmingham, Warwickshire. In 1925 she died.

Around 1865. Unknown Photographer. Jane Morris nee Burden (age 25) and [her daughter] Jane Alicia Morris (age 3).

. Jun 1865. John Robert Parsons (age 3). Photograph of Jane Morris nee Burden (age 25).

1868. Dante Gabriel Rossetti (age 39). Blue Silk Dress. Model Jane Morris nee Burden (age 28).

1868. Dante Gabriel Rossetti (age 39). "Pia de' Tolomei" [An Italian noblewoman from Siena identified as "la Pia," a minor character in Dante's Divine Comedy who was murdered by her husband]. Model Jane Morris nee Burden (age 28).

1869. Dante Gabriel Rossetti (age 40). Mrs William Morris aka Jane Morris nee Burden (age 29).

1870. Dante Gabriel Rossetti (age 41). La Donna della Fiamina aka The Woman of Flames. Model Jane Morris nee Burden (age 30).

1870. Dante Gabriel Rossetti (age 41). Mariana. The bottom of the frame has these words from Shakespeare's Measure for Measure "Take, O Take those lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn, And those eyes, the break of day, Lights that do mislean the morn. But my kisses bring again, bring again, Seals of love, but sealed in vain, sealed in vain." Model Jane Morris nee Burden (age 30).

In 1871 [her husband] William Morris (age 36), and Dante Gabriel Rossetti (age 42) took out a joint tenancy on Kelmscott Manor, Oxfordshire. Moris went to Iceland leaving Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Jane Morris nee Burden (age 31) to furnish the house. A relationship between Rossetti and Jane is believed to have begun some years before.

1871. The census records [her husband] William Morris (age 36), Jane Morris nee Burden (age 31), Elizabeth Burden, sister-in-law, [her daughter] Jane Alicia Morris (age 9), [her daughter] Mary "May" Morris (age 8) and three servants living at 21 Queen Square, Bloomsbury.

1871. Dante Gabriel Rossetti (age 42). Dante's Dream at the Time of the Death of Beatrice. Models: Beatrice: Jane Morris nee Burden (age 31), far left Alice aka Alexa Wilding (age 24), far right Annie Miller (age 36).

1871. Dante Gabriel Rossetti (age 42). Pandora. Holding the box - see Hesiod's Works and Days Lines 83 to 108 lines 90-94. Model Jane Morris nee Burden (age 31).

1874. Frederick Hollyer (age 35). Photograph of the Burne-Jones and Morris families including [her husband] William Morris (age 39), Jane Morris nee Burden (age 34), Edward Coley Burne-Jones 1st Baronet (age 40) and Georgiana Macdonald Lady Burne-Jones (age 33).

1875. Dante Gabriel Rossetti (age 46). Study of Mrs William Morris aka Jane Morris nee Burden (age 35).

1877. Dante Gabriel Rossetti (age 48). "Proserpine". Model Jane Morris nee Burden (age 37).

1877. Dante Gabriel Rossetti (age 48). Astarte Syriaca. Model Jane Morris nee Burden (age 37).

1880 to 1882. Dante Gabriel Rossetti (age 51). "The Salutation of Beatrice". Model Jane Morris nee Burden (age 40).

1880. Dante Gabriel Rossetti (age 51). "The Daydream". Model Jane Morris nee Burden (age 40).

1881. Dante Gabriel Rossetti (age 52). La Donna della Finestra aka The Woman at the Window. Model Jane Morris nee Burden (age 41).

1881. Dante Gabriel Rossetti (age 52). Joan of Arc. Model Jane Morris nee Burden (age 41).

In 1883 Jane Morris nee Burden (age 43) met the poet and political activist Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (age 42) at a house party given by her close friend, Rosalind Howard (age 37) who would become Countess of Carlisle in 1889. At sometime after, probably around 1887, they had commenced a relationship.

On 06 Oct 1896 [her former husband] William Morris (deceased) was buried at St George's Church, Kelmscott [Map]. His gravestone was designed by his friend Philip Webb. His wife Jane Morris nee Burden (age 56) and daughter [her daughter] Mary "May" Morris (age 34) attended. The funeral is described by William Fredeman here.

1901. The Census records Jane Morris nee Burden (age 61), [her daughter] Jane Alicia Morris (age 39), Louisa C Strong, companion, and three servants living at Kelmscott Manor, Oxfordshire.

1903. Evelyn de Morgan aka Mary Evelyn Pickering (age 47). Model Jane Morris (age 63).

1904. Evelyn de Morgan aka Mary Evelyn Pickering (age 48). "Jane Morris (age 64)". This drawing was a study for "The Hourglass".

1904 - 1905. Evelyn de Morgan aka Mary Evelyn Pickering (age 49). "The Hourglass". Also according to Mrs Stirling, Evelyn De Morgan described this work as ‘"n echo of a movemnet in the Waldstein Sonata of ‘Beethoven’." Model Jane Morris (age 65).

02 Apr 1911. The Census records Jane Morris nee Burden (age 71), [her sister] Elizabeth Burden (age 69) and a Lady's Maid living at 33 St George's Place.

In 1913 Jane Morris nee Burden (age 73) puchased Kelmscott Manor, Oxfordshire to secure it for her daughters' future.

On 29 Jan 1914 Jane Morris nee Burden (deceased) was buried at St George's Church, Kelmscott [Map] in the same grave as her husband [her former husband] William Morris. Her body was driven in a 'motor' from Bath to the manor house just before the service. Her coffin was 17th century style and in oak with brass furniture and a simple inscription of her name and date of death, and was carried into the church by six village men. The church was well attended by the villagers as well as familiar names from the world of art and literature including Marie Stillman (age 69) whose wreath was noted in the papers. The hymn 'Now the labourer's task is o'er' was sung and the organist played the Dead March as the coffin was carried out to where William was already buried.