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The Model Wife: Effie, Ruskin and Millais. Suzanne Fagence Cooper
Suzanne Fagence Cooper
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Description for The Model Wife: Effie, Ruskin and Millais. Suzanne Fagence Cooper
Paperback. The scandalous love triangle at the heart of the Victorian art world. Num Pages: 312 pages, 24 black and white, 10 colour. BIC Classification: ACV; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 238.
The Scottish beauty Effie Gray is the heroine of a great Victorian love story. Married at 19 to John Ruskin, she found herself trapped in an unconsummated union. She would fall in love with her husband's protege, John Everett Millais, and inspire some of his most memorable art, but controversy and tragedy continued to stalk her. Suzanne Fagence Cooper has gained exclusive access to Effie's family letters and diaries to show the rise and fall of the Pre-Raphaelite circle from a new perspective, through the eyes of a woman whose charm and ambition ... Read more
The Scottish beauty Effie Gray is the heroine of a great Victorian love story. Married at 19 to John Ruskin, she found herself trapped in an unconsummated union. She would fall in love with her husband's protege, John Everett Millais, and inspire some of his most memorable art, but controversy and tragedy continued to stalk her. Suzanne Fagence Cooper has gained exclusive access to Effie's family letters and diaries to show the rise and fall of the Pre-Raphaelite circle from a new perspective, through the eyes of a woman whose charm and ambition ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Duckworth Publishing
Number of pages
312
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780715641446
SKU
V9780715641446
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About Suzanne Fagence Cooper
Suzanne Fagence Cooper is the author of the Victorian Woman and Pre-Raphaelite Art in the V&A Museum. Her knowledge of Victorian art has led to her appearing on a number of television programmes on BBC2 and Channel 4. She lives in Yorkshire with her husband and two daughters.
Reviews for The Model Wife: Effie, Ruskin and Millais. Suzanne Fagence Cooper
'Effie Gray's story is extraordinary and Cooper feasts upon it with appetite ... I cannot recommend Fagence Cooper's biography of Effie Gray more highly to anyone with a heart, a liking for a good read and an interest in things Victorian'
Henrietta Garnett
Literary Review
'This is an exceptional book about an exceptional trio and the exceptional ... Read more
Henrietta Garnett
Literary Review
'This is an exceptional book about an exceptional trio and the exceptional ... Read more