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Raymond and his wife, Gaye, had two children together, a son and a daughter; they divorced in 1990. [3] After his divorce, Raymond was reportedly in a relationship with Peggy Knight of Ross, California.
Victoria's Secret was founded by Roy Raymond, and his wife, Gaye Raymond, [ 2 ][ 6 ][ 7 ] on June 12, 1977. [ 19 ][ 8 ] The first store was opened in the Stanford Shopping Center in Palo Alto, California. [ 8 ] Years earlier, Raymond was embarrassed when purchasing lingerie for his wife at a department store.
William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was an English textile designer, poet, artist, [1] writer, and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts movement. He was a major contributor to the revival of traditional British textile arts and methods of production. His literary contributions helped to establish the ...
Jane Morris (née Burden; 19 October 1839 – 26 January 1914) was an English embroiderer in the Arts and Crafts movement and an artists' model who embodied the Pre-Raphaelite ideal of beauty.
2 v. (256 and 239 pp.) Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair is a fantasy novel by William Morris, perhaps the first modern fantasy writer to unite an imaginary world with the element of the supernatural, and thus the precursor of much of present-day fantasy literature. [ 1 ] It was first published in hardcover by Morris' Kelmscott Press in ...
Plot summary. Stolen as a child and raised in the wood of Evilshaw as servant to a witch, Birdalone ultimately escapes in her captress's magical boat, in which she travels to a succession of strange and wonderful islands. Among these is the Isle of Increase Unsought, an island cursed with boundless production, which Morris intended as a parable ...
The Earthly Paradise by William Morris is an epic poem. It is a lengthy collection of retellings of various myths and legends from Greece and Scandinavia. Publication began in 1868 and several later volumes followed until 1870. The volumes were published by F.S. Ellis. [1] Morris uses a frame story concerning a group of medieval wanderers searching for a land of everlasting life. After much ...
The Sundering Flood is a fantasy novel by British writer William Morris, perhaps the first modern fantasy writer to unite an imaginary world with the element of the supernatural, and thus the precursor of much of present-day fantasy literature. [1] The Sundering Flood was Morris' last work of fiction, completed only in rough draft, with the ...