Effie: The Passionate Lives of Effie Gray John Ruskin and John Everett Millais

Effie Gray a beautiful and intelligent young socialite rattled the foundations of Englands Victorian age. Married at nineteen to John Ruskin the leading art critic of the time she found herself trapped in a loveless unconsummated union after Ruskin rejected her on their wedding night. On a trip to Scotland she met John Everett Millais Ruskins protégé and fell passionately in love with him. In a daring act Effie left Ruskin had their marriage annulled and entered into a long happy marriage with Millais. Suzanne Fagence Cooper has gained exclusive access to Effies previously unseen letters and diaries to tell the complete story of this scandalous love triangle. In Coopers hands this passionate love story also becomes an important new look at the work of both Ruskin and Millais with Effie emerging as a key figure in their artistic development. Effie is a heartbreakingly beautiful book about three lives passionately entwined with some of the greatest paintings of the pre-Raphaelite period.