User:Florence S. Boos

Florence S. Boos
I'm a professor of English at the University of Iowa, where I've taught since 1973. My research interests

include Victorian poetry, Pre-Raphaelitism and the works of William Morris, and nineteenth-century working-class literature, with an emphasis on the poetry and memoirs of British working-class women.

I'm the founder and general editor of the William Morris Archive (morrisarchive.lib.uiowa.edu), and have published critical works on the poetry of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris, most recently History and Poetics in the Early Writings of William Morris, 1856-1870 (2015). I've also prepared annotated critical editions of Morris’s The Earthly Paradise (2001), The Socialist Diary (second ed., 2018) and The Life and Death of Jason (morrisarchive.lib.uiowa.edu/jason.html); and have published more than two hundred articles, essays, introductions, and reviews on related subjects.

My annotated anthology Working-Class Women Poets of Victorian Britain, a first attempt to identify the scope of these women’s lives and works, appeared in 2008, and The Memoirs of Victorian Working-Class Women: The Hard Way Up, appeared in 2017. My most recent editions are The Routledge Companion to William Morris (2020) and William Morris on Socialism: Uncollected Essays (Edinburgh UP, 2023). In 2018 I edited a volume by her late husband, William Boos, Metamathematics and the Philosophical Tradition (de Gruyter).

I live for much of the year in Iowa City, but I also have Canadian resident status and spend about 40% of each year in British Columbia near my son.