In Glasier’s personal account of William Morris he reveals a side too often overlooked. This is an account of Morris’s contribution to the early days of Socialism by a fellow Socialist. Glasier notes: ‘Morris was a Socialist by reason of his whole intellectual and moral construction, and whatever circumstances eventually led him to realise and to proclaim himself a Socialist, and there were doubtless many – his Socialism was none the less a necessary expression of his whole nature.