Download Effie: The Passionate Lives of Effie Gray, John Ruskin and John Everett Millais AudioBook Free
Effie Gray, a beautiful and smart young socialite, rattled the foundations of England's Victorian era. Hitched at 19 to John Ruskin, the main art critic of the time, she found herself trapped in a loveless, unconsummated union after Ruskin turned down her on their wedding night. On a trip to Scotland she attained John Everett Millais, Ruskin's protege, and dropped passionately in love with him. In the daring function, Effie remaining Ruskin, acquired their matrimony annulled, and got into into a long, happy matrimony with Millais. Suzanne Fagence Cooper has gained exclusive usage of Effie's previously unseen letters and diaries to tell the complete report of the scandalous love triangle. In Cooper's hands, this excited love report also becomes an important new look at the work of both Ruskin and Millais, with Effie appearing as an integral number in their creative development. Effie is a heartbreakingly beautiful e book about three lives passionately entwined with some of the greatest paintings of the pre-Raphaelite period.
