Quote: I think I read a short thing on the internet about her life post D. Quite liberated post D and some good sex in her life as I remember. Way to go I say to her.
She married the artist John Everett Millais and they promptly had eight children. Near the end of her marriage to Ruskin, Millais went on holiday with Effie and Ruskin. Millais wrote that he was struck by the contrast between Ruskin's usual affable manner and the demeaning manner in which he treated his wife. Millais at first was uncomfortable with the fact that Ruskin left him alone with his wife in a way that was improper by Victorian standards. Effie was a beautiful woman (there are many portraits of her viewable online) and she and Millais soon fell in love once he came to understand the facts of her unconsumated marriage. There is a play called "The Countess" about the relationship between these three Victorians and there is a book of their letters on which it was based.
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" - Mary Oliver
