The series "Encounters. The Warsaw Studies in English Language Culture, Literature, and Visual Arts" assembles publications dealing with culture, literature and visual arts developed in English-speaking countries. It includes academic works on a wide range of topics, including historical and recent developments in literary and cultural studies. The series wishes to be a meeting point for a variety of academic approaches that enable new ways of thinking and interpreting human experience.

Frederick Rolfe wanted to influence how others see him both by his behaviour and his literary output. The biography skewed the image he wanted to project. This work analyses the impression Rolfe attempted to create of himself in his fiction and discusses the image projected by his correspondence and the biographical work on him.