Effie
by Suzanne Cooper
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"Graceful and judicious . . . Effie Gray emerges . . . as a very likable figure: lively, fashionable, brave.” —The New York TimesEffie Gray was the woman at the center of Victorian England’s most scandalous love triangle, one involving two art world giants: critic, John Ruskin, and his protégé, painter John Everett Millais. Married at nineteen to a much older Ruskin, Effie found herself trapped in a loveless, unconsummated union and under the critical eyes of... more
About Suzanne Cooper
Published: May 8, 2012 by Macmillan Publishing
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs, Cooking. Non-fiction. 288 pages
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Kirkus Reviews | 5 Apr 2011
Victoria & Albert Museum curator Cooper (Pre-Raphaelite Art in the Victoria & Albert Museum, 2003, etc.) works from Effie’s previously unknown personal correspondence, which the author gained acces...
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The New York Times | 21 Jun 2011
That marriage — mostly happy, except for Millais’s temporary infatuation with Effie’s younger and even more beautiful sister, Sophy — lasted 41 years, during which Millais, encouraged by Effie, aba...
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Publishers Weekly | 25 Apr 2011
Despite Cooper's access to substantial family records, which allow her to offer detailed recreations of Effie's fraught upper-class family life, the author admits to gaps in our knowledge of Effie'...
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The Wall Street Journal | 17 Jun 2011
Cooper's biography of Effie Gray (1828-97), who was married successively to the art critic John Ruskin and then to the erstwhile Pre-Raphaelite painter J.E.
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Washington Independent Review of Books | 29 Aug 2011
The Queen, in particular, refused to acknowledge any distinction between divorce and annulment, barring Effie from any social event at which she would be present, opining that she would not counten...
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http://metro.co.uk | 26 Oct 2010
The Model Wife: Effie, Ruskin & Millais by Suzanne Fagence Cooper She then married Millais, with whom she had eight children and a prosperous life as the socialite wife of one of the era’s most suc...
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