Effie Gray. Euphemia Chalmers Millais, Lady Milllais was the wife of Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais.
She had previously been married to the critic John Ruskin, but the marriage was annulled, and she left him without it having been consummated. This famous Victorian love triangle has been dramatised in plays, films and an opera.
She was also an artist and an author for Effie in Venice: Unpublished Letters of Mrs. John Ruskin Written from Venice Between 1849-1852 and Selling Light, first published in 2008.
Euphemia Chalmers Gray, initially known by the pet name of Phemy, later as Effie, was born on 7 May 1828 to Sophia Margaret Gray and George Gray in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. She had a sister named Sophy Gray.
Gray's family knew Ruskin's father, and they encouraged a match between Ruskin and Gray. Ruskin wrote the fantasy novel The King of the Golden River for her in 1841, when she was twelve years old. She married Ruskin when she was only 20 years old. After their marriage in 1848, they travelled to Venice, where Ruskin was researching his book The Stones of Venice. In Perth, Scotland, they lived in Bowerswell, the house where Ruskin's grandfather had killed himself by cutting his throat in 1817. Their different personalities were thrown into sharp relief by their contrasting priorities. For Effie, Venice provided an opportunity to socialise while Ruskin was engaged in soli
She had previously been married to the critic John Ruskin, but the marriage was annulled, and she left him without it having been consummated. This famous Victorian love triangle has been dramatised in plays, films and an opera.
She was also an artist and an author for Effie in Venice: Unpublished Letters of Mrs. John Ruskin Written from Venice Between 1849-1852 and Selling Light, first published in 2008.
Euphemia Chalmers Gray, initially known by the pet name of Phemy, later as Effie, was born on 7 May 1828 to Sophia Margaret Gray and George Gray in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. She had a sister named Sophy Gray.
Gray's family knew Ruskin's father, and they encouraged a match between Ruskin and Gray. Ruskin wrote the fantasy novel The King of the Golden River for her in 1841, when she was twelve years old. She married Ruskin when she was only 20 years old. After their marriage in 1848, they travelled to Venice, where Ruskin was researching his book The Stones of Venice. In Perth, Scotland, they lived in Bowerswell, the house where Ruskin's grandfather had killed himself by cutting his throat in 1817. Their different personalities were thrown into sharp relief by their contrasting priorities. For Effie, Venice provided an opportunity to socialise while Ruskin was engaged in soli
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