Background
She was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the daughter of Captain Guy Morris and Sibylla Amelia Maria Sophia Leggett.
She was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the daughter of Captain Guy Morris and Sibylla Amelia Maria Sophia Leggett.
Morris was a descendent of Charles Morris. She received training in art at Dalhousie College from an American West. H. Jones and in Halifax from Professor L"Estrange, an English artist. Morris operated a number of schools which taught drawing and painting to young women.
Morris published several series of botanical lithographs: Wildflowers of Nova Scotia, with one series in 1839 to 1840 and a second series in 1853, Wild flowers of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick in 1866 and Wildflowers of British North America in 1867.
A copy of the botanical paintings which appeared in these works appeared at the Universal Exposition of 1867 in Paris. She died in Halifax at the age of 62.