Effie
The Passionate Lives of Effie Gray, John Rushkin, and John Everett Millais

A wonderfully written account of Effie Millais' life and a great depiction of what Victorian England must have been like. Suzanne Fagence Cooper writes a story using Effie's Letters to and from her family and friends, her and her husbands diaries. When I first picked up 'Effie' in Waterstones,I was......more

Due to scrupulously preserved correspondence, meticulous research and a riveting writing style the Victorian scandal of Effie Gray, John Ruskin and Everett Millais is revealed in thrilling detail by biographer Suzanne Fagence Cooper. This is a superb and superior biography that leaves other biographi......more

This account is about three prominent people in Victorian England. Effie married a man who was abusive and refused to consummate their relationship. She sued for an annulment which was unheard of at the time. He was an up-and-coming art critic. She and one of her first husband's associates, a famous......more

Storia di uno scandalo, e di un acquisto postumo. Più che una semplice biografia, ci troviamo a leggere un trattato sulla condizione femminile in epoca vittoriana, un saggio di storia dell'arte, un diario di vita e di viaggio. La narrazione è strettamente basata sull'epistolario dei personaggi, e la s......more