

Effie
A Victorian Scandal - From Ruskin's Wife to Millais's Muse
Author: Merryn Williams
Narrator: Rosalyn Landor
Unabridged: 8 hr 2 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
Published: 03/24/2015
Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Women, Historical Biography, Arts & Entertainment
Synopsis
Ruskin, Millais and Effie were exposed to the kind of gossip today's wannabe celebrities can only dream of. Effie was regarded as mentally ill, immoral and certainly tainted - Queen Victoria initially refused to receive her - while Ruskin was seen either as noble and virtuous or deranged and impotent. Ruskin was repelled by Effie's body; Millais used her as a model in some of his greatest paintings. Millais went on to become one of Britain s most popular painters, but the stigma of his wife's past would never be forgotten.
From the heart of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood comes a story as fascinating today as it was shocking in the 1850s.