The Scottish beauty Effie Gray is the heroine of a great Victorian love story. Married at 19 to John Ruskin, she found herself trapped in an unconsummated union. She would fall in love with her husband's protege, John Everett Millais, and inspire some of his most memorable art, but controversy and tragedy continued to stalk her. Suzanne Fagence Cooper has gained exclusive access to Effie's family letters and diaries to show the rise and fall of the Pre-Raphaelite circle from a new perspective, through the eyes of a woman ...
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The Scottish beauty Effie Gray is the heroine of a great Victorian love story. Married at 19 to John Ruskin, she found herself trapped in an unconsummated union. She would fall in love with her husband's protege, John Everett Millais, and inspire some of his most memorable art, but controversy and tragedy continued to stalk her. Suzanne Fagence Cooper has gained exclusive access to Effie's family letters and diaries to show the rise and fall of the Pre-Raphaelite circle from a new perspective, through the eyes of a woman whose charm and ambition helped to shape the careers of both her husbands. Effie Gray is a compelling portrait of the extraordinary woman behind some of the greatest paintings of the Victorian era.
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Add this copy of Effie: the Passionate Lives of Effie Gray, John Ruskin to cart. $21.38, like new condition, Sold by In Other Words Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Plymouth, DEVON, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2014 by Duckworth.
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Fine. 12mo-over 6¾-7¾" tall. pp. 276. Very good, unread copy, with no markings. Cover curling on RH edge. Otherwise good as new. 16 pages of portraits or photos, in black and white, and colour. The story of a particular scandal in the Victorian era, when a 19-year-old heiress married the famous art critic, John Ruskin, and found herself trapped in an uncosummated union-before falling in love with the artist Millais, one of her husband's proteges. The author had access to Effie's family letters and diaries to show the history of the Pre-Raphaelite circle from a new perspective, through the eyes of a woman whose charm and ambition helped her shape the careers of both her husbands.
