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1) Effie Gray
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A sumptuous historical drama set against a luscious backdrop exploring the scandalous love triangle between Victorian art critic John Ruskin, his young bride Effie Gray, and his protǧ,̌ painter John Everett Millais. After marrying Ruskin, Effie quickly realizes her marriage is a lie when Ruskin refuses to consummate it. Yearning for affection, she soon falls for the charms of the charismatic Millais.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In November 1878, America's greatest painter sued England's greatest critic for a bad review. The painter won-but ruined himself in the process. The painter: James Abbot MacNeill Whistler, whose combination of incredible talent, unflagging energy, and relentless self-promotion had by that time brought him to the very edge of artistic preeminence. The critic: John Ruskin, Slade Professor of Art at Oxford University, whose four-decades' worth of prolific...
Author
Series
Grand and Batchelor volume 7
Publisher
Crème de la Crime
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"London. May, 1878. Private enquiry agents Matthew Grand and James Batchelor have been hired by the artist James Whistler to dig into the past of outspoken critic John Ruskin, with whom he has an ongoing feud. Not particularly optimistic of success, the two detectives are sidetracked from the investigation by the murder of a prostitute in nearby Cremorne Gardens. Her body posed on a park bench, a book on birth control sitting on her lap, Clara Jenkins...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"Effie Gray was the beautiful woman at the center of Victorian England's most scandalous love triangle, a scandal involving two giants of the art world: the art critic, John Ruskin, and his protégé, the painter John Everett Millais."--p.[4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Pallas Athene
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Effie Gray was an innocent victim of a male-dominated society, repressed and mistreated. Or was she? John Ruskin, the greatest art critic and social reformer of his time, was a callous misogynist and upholder of the patriarchy. Or was he? John Everett Millais, boy genius, rescued the heroine from the tyrannical clutches of the husband who left his wedding unconsummated for six years. Or did he? What really happened in the most scandalous love triangle...
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