“Madam, I am not an ‘ite’ of any kind.”

In later life, Rossetti liked to shrug off his connection to the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. To admirers, he gently dismissed the whole movement as “the visionary vanities of half a dozen boys.” To which I say “pah!”, because tomorrow is the … Continue reading “Madam, I am not an ‘ite’ of any kind.”