Sefton’s painting of ‘Aphrodite’ is destined to be his masterpiece, and he has found the perfect model for it in Miss Rose Rose. If only she wasn’t so notoriously unreliable…

A new, original recording of a classic public domain text, read and performed by Simon Stanhope for Bitesized Audio.

Barry Eric Odell Pain (1864–1928) was a poet, journalist, novelist and author of short stories. He was especially prolific in the period from 1890 to 1910, although he continued writing into the late 1920s.

Prior to its publication in ‘Stories in Grey’, ‘Rose Rose’ first appeared in ‘The London Magazine’, edition number 141, in May 1910.