According to PC Fleming, editor of "The Rossetti Archive" (
link), this story, which was published uncredited in the February 1856 issue of
The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine, is by William Fulford. It was attributed to William Morris in H. Buxton Forman's
The Books of William Morris Described (about which the William Morris Society says, "Formerly the standard bibliography of Morris's books despite the inclusion of forgeries and piracies perpetrated by [Buxton Forman] and his friend Thomas J. Wise"); the Wellesley Index quotes this attribution. However, the most recent Morris bibliography, by Eugene LeMire, discovered that the two poems in "The Two Partings" had been reprinted in William Fulford's collected poems.
