Euphemia“Effie” Gray met the painter John Everett Millais while she was already married to John Ruskin, the celebrated Victorian art critic, writer, social thinker and tireless champion of the arts. Yet, despite having been husband and wife for five years, their marriage had never been consummated. Ruskin continually postponed marital intimacy, later claiming he had […]

Effie Gray and Ruskin: A Marriage Never Consummated – (Part One)