<p>Effie Gray was the heroine of a great Victorian love story. Caught in a loveless marriage to the art critic John Ruskin, she fell in love with his protégé, the painter John Everett Millais, inspiring many of his most celebrated paintings. Drawing on exclusive access to unpublished letters and diaries, this absorbing biography brings to life this intelligent and resourceful woman, reveals her key role in the Pre-Raphaelite movement, and offers a new explanation of the Ruskins unconsummated marriage.</p>

The Model Wife: The Passionate Lives of Effie Gray, Ruskin and Millais

Suzanne Fagence Cooper

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Effie Gray: The Passionate Lives of Effie Gray, Ruskin and Millais

Gerald Duckworth Co Ltd

Pre-Raphaelite Art in the Victoria and Albert Museum

Whether painted furniture, book illustrations, textiles or tiles, the decorative arts were as important as the now famous oil paintings in developing the distinctive Pre-Raphaelite style and were also instrumental in bringing their work to a wide audience. The V&A collection is also rich in drawings and photographs, and all these combine to bring alive the working practices and sources of inspiration - from choice of models to literature, history and the natural world - which linked artists such as Edward Burne-Jones, William Homan Hunt, Dante Gabriel Rosetti and John Everett Millais. The result is a new and fresh approach to the work of the Pre-Raphaelites, and one that will reinforce their enduring popularity.

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

V&A Publishing

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