A first-person memoir of Rossetti's last months, featuring sundry gothic
details, especially concerning Elizabeth Siddal, and ending with the artist's
death from chloral. Hall Caine later became a celebrated novelist: here his
style is arch and orotund but the account is nevertheless very readable and,
overall, reasonably brief.
There is modern edition by Century (National Trust Classics), 1990, with an
introduction by Jan Marsh.
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