Euphemia Chalmers (“Effie”) Gray divorced English art critic John Ruskin (1819-1900) on grounds of impotence.
Gray obtained an annulment in 1854 after seven years of an unconsummated marriage.
She went on to marry painter John Everett Millais, a favorite of Ruskin’s.
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