One has to wonder what he might have accomplished had he not died so young (62).
His artistic and design influence, of course, crossed The Pond during his lifetime, as those Boston church windows testify. Though the "Arts & Crafts Movement" went in a slightly different direction here, much of the aesthetic philosophy of Morris and the PRB remained intact. Even now, as I'm shirking my paid work to surf through google images 
I'm coming across examples of Frank Lloyd Wright and other American artists and designers and architects who seem to have that same worldview as Morris: that there can be beauty in both function and form.
Morris was what you'd probably consider middle class, but his wife Jane Burden was lower working class (at best) and despite her long affair with Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Morris apparently loved her very sincerely, and they remained married. Their younger daughter Mary was also an active socialist well into the 20th century.
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