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Mrs Horace Manners,
Etonensis.Associated with Pre-Raphaelitism. Met Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones, William Morris, and the Pre-Raphaelites during his time at Oxford. Lifelong friends with William Michael Rossetti. Acquainted with Richard Monckton Milne, Simeon Solomon, and Theodore Watts-Dunton. Reputed by his contemporaries to be sexually non-normative, and frequently wrote on decadent sexual themes. Publications include Poems and Ballads (1866). Biographical information: ODNB. (CC, BGL)