“All the accounts of Gabriel’s meeting with Fanny - whose real name was Sarah Cox - embody two essential elements of Pre-Raphaelite culture: hair fetishism and erotic slumming.”

— Francine Prose on Dante Gabriel Rossetti in the divine The Lives of the Muses. It’s such a pleasure to read a nonfiction book where you’re in the sure hands of a great writer and a beautiful mind.