Effie Lib/E: The Passionate Lives of Effie Gray, John Rushkin, and John Everett Millais (Audiobook)

from siri51

An excellent biography - a complicated life with an early marriage to Ruskin, divorce due to non-consumation, marriage to Millais, eight children, much travel, death of her sister from anorexia, death of a son from consumption at just 21. All with background intrigue of London art society.

from starbox

Pretty interesting biography of the wife of John Ruskin; perhaps the first section on their doomed marriage is the most compulsive part. Ruskin remains a total enigma- genius in the art world, a man who liked his own company, liked living with his parents, liked little girls but not women : just ...

from Cariola

Effie Gray was only twelve when she met the celebrated young art critic John Ruskin in 1841. A friendship developed, and within a few years, he proposed; the two married when Effie was nineteen, Ruskin 29. Effie imagined the two of them as the perfect couple, her social charm as asset to his bril...

from Whisper1

This is an utterly fascinating book, not only regarding the sexless marriage of John Ruskin and Effie Gray, but most importantly the social roles of women in Victorian age. John Ruskin wanted to marry the much younger Effie Gray. He toyed and played games regarding his commitment and possible lo...

from Liabee

Retelling the story of Effie Gray, whose annulled marriage to John Ruskin has been the stuff of myth for well over a century ( I always thought he saw her on their wedding night and fainted dead away, but apparently this is not the case). This fascinating book finally goes beyond that to the life...