Jan Morris





Jan Morris

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October 02, 1926 in Clevedon, Somerset, The United Kingdom

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Jan Morris previously wrote under the name James Morris.

Jan Morris is a British historian, author and travel writer. Morris was educated at Lancing College, West Sussex, and Christ Church, Oxford, but is Welsh by heritage and adoption. Before 1970 Morris published under her former name, "James Morris", and is known particularly for the Pax Britannica trilogy, a history of the British Empire, and for portraits of cities, notably Oxford, Venice, Trieste, Hong Kong, and New York City, and has also written about Wales, Spanish history and culture.

Morris was assigned male at birth, and before circa-1970 was known as "James Morris". In 1949, as James, Morris married Elizabeth Tuckniss, the daughter of a tea planter. Morris and Tuckniss had five...more


Average rating: 4.01 · 3,637 ratings · 506 reviews · 63 distinct works
Venice
4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 121 ratings — published 1993 — 8 editions
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Heaven's Command: An Imperi...
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Farewell The Trumpets: An I...
4.35 of 5 stars 4.35 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 1980 — 6 editions
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Hav
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 2006 — 5 editions
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The World: Travels 1950-2000
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 1900 — 5 editions
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Hong Kong
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 1988 — 8 editions
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A Writer's House in Wales
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions
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“Book lovers will understand me,
and they will know too that part of the pleasure
of a library lies in its very existence.”
Jan Morris

“In a Kenya game park once I saw a family of wart-hogs waddling ungainly and in a tremendous hurry across the grass. Contemptuous though I am of those who find animals comic…still I could not help laughing at this quaint spectacle. My African companion rightly rebuked me. “You should not laugh at them,” he said. “They are beautiful to each other.”
Jan Morris, Conundrum

“Few conversations, at any time of life, are more stimulating, more spontaneous and more genuinely original than those long ridiculous talks we all have, when we are very young, late at night about the meaning of life.”
Jan Morris

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