The Times Literary Supplement and The New York Review of Books. She contributed to TV and radio arts programmes. Awards and honours Fiona MacCarthy was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (1997), an Honorary Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow of the Royal College of Art. She was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to literature in the 2009 Birthday Honours. She was awarded honorary doctorates by the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University and was awarded the Bicentenary Medal of the Royal Society of Arts. Her biography William Morris: A Life for our Time (1994) was winner of the Wolfson History Prize and the Writers' Guild Non-fiction Award. The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination won the 2012 James Tait Black prize for Biography. Her life of Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus, was published in March 2019. Personal life Her first marriage to Ian White-Thompson ended in divorce. In 1966, she married the Sheffield-based silversmith and cutlery designer David Mellor. She first met him when she went to interview him for The Guardian in 1964. They had two children, Corin and Clare, both of whom have now become designers. After suffering from dementia for some years, Mellor died in May 2009. Fiona MacCarthy died on 29 February 2020, aged 80. Works 1972 All Things Bright and Beautiful: British Design 1830 to Today 1981 The Simple Life: C. R. Ashbee in the Cotswolds 1984 The Omega Workshops: Decorative Arts of Bloomsbury 1989 Eric Gill () 1994 William Morris: A Life for our Time () 1997 Stanley Spencer: An English Vision () 2002 Byron: Life and Legend () 2007 Last Curtsey: The End of the Debutantes () 2011 The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination () 2019 Walter Gropius: Visionary Founder of the Bauhaus () Exhibitions She curated the following exhibitions: Homespun to Highspeed: British Design 1860 to 1960 for Sheffield Museums and Art Galleries, 1979 The Omega Workshops: Decorative Arts of Bloomsbury for the Crafts Council, 1984 Eye for Industry: retrospective of the Royal Designers for the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1986 Byron for the National Portrait Gallery, 2002 Anarchy and Beauty, William Morris and his Legacy for the National Portrait Gallery, 2014 References External links Official site at Lady Margaret Hall 1940 births 2020 deaths British debutantes Writers from London