"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.

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...