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Recently the file File:Euphemia ('Effie') Chalmers (née Gray), Lady Millais by Thomas Richmond.jpg (right) was uploaded and it appears to be relevant to this article and not currently used by it. If you're interested and think it would be a useful addition, please feel free to include it. Dcoetzee 03:55, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
On-site gondola scenes shown in the photo blog of a local extra:
http://iamnotmakingthisup.net/12516/venice-starring-me/
Probably not encyclopaedic, but shows that Effie is not in "pre-production", it is actually "in production" right now. 82.131.210.163 (talk) 18:50, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
I was wondering while recently translating this article - shouldn't the title be "Effie Millais" instead of Effie Gray? I don't think it's customary to keep the maiden name in the title in case of married women. Viktorhauk (talk) 13:33, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
I see. Google brings up > 2 million hits for "Effie Gray", only 300 000 for "Effie Millais". In this recent biography of hers (The Model Wife: Effie, Ruskin and Millais) she is called "Effie Millais", while on the preraphaelites.net, she's called "Effie Ruskin". Thanks for pointing this out to me. Viktorhauk (talk) 10:29, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
Biographers and researchers have shown a ghoulish obsession with Ruskin's claim that he didn't consummate his marriage because he found some aspect of his wife's person disgusting. He also said that human women were not as he had imagined them to be, based on his experience viewing nude female statues. Some writers have believed he was upset by Effie's public hair. Others thought she must have been menstruating, and the "disgusted" bridegroom glimpsed blood. No one seems to have reached the most obvious conclusion, which is that Ruskin was impotent, then and always. He knew it, and fabricated an excuse which would cast the blame on his wife rather than himself. As one biographer dolefully put it, "Ruskin is not known to have had sex with anyone, ever." That's rather compelling evidence of incapacity. Younggoldchip (talk) 16:29, 18 August 2018 (UTC)
The short description and lead both claim Gray was a painter, however it is not mentioned at all in the article. Either include information about her career as an artist, or reword the short description and lead.
My suggestion for the short description:
Scottish artists' model and wife (1828–1897)
I include "wife" because the majority of the article deals with her romantic relationships with Ruskin and Millais.
Liam2520 (talk) 12:10, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
The reality is I think that she was an amateur artist working in the shadow of her two husbands. But I would not favour a change in the description myself. Sbishop (talk) 12:26, 31 January 2022 (UTC)