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Effie: The Passionate Lives of Effie Gray, John Ruskin and John Everett Millais Farrar Straus Giroux a young woman coming toEffie Gray, a beautiful and intelligent young socialite, rattled the foundations of England's Victorian age. Married at nineteen to John Ruskin, the leading art critic of the time, she found herself trapped in a loveless, unconsummated union after Ruskin rejected her on their wedding night. On a trip to Scotland she met John Everett Millais, Ruskin's prot g , and fell passionately in love with him. In a daring act, Effie left Ruskin, had their