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He was shy, nervous, and self-conscious, without any of the intellectual assurance and ease so characteristic of him eighteen months later when his success was unquestioned.
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Robert Ross; writing in a eulogy about his first meeting with Beardsley in 1892.

 

Aubrey Beardsley

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