BAM doesn’t answer to her real name's Reviews > Desperate Romantics: The Private Lives of the Pre-Raphaelites

I just realized this, but I have the audiobook called “Effie”, which is about John Ruskin’s wife and their extremely unhappy marriage(that could totally be a monstrous understatement); this book, which deals with the pre Raphaelites (which deals with Ruskin, Effie, Lizzie Siddell et Al,) and a historical fiction about Lizzie, which I have not yet read. Then there is also Ruskin’s studies of the stones of Venice and the master painters. So I should feel well studied, but noooo. I blame Ruskin. My lord is he a miserable man.
Ok Ruskin is one fantastically walking nightmare. Everything he touches hits a fan. Whatever size fan is fine, it’ll hit it all the same. When I attempted to read the stones of Venice, I made it through two volumes until I finally threw in the towel on the last two. I’ve not picked up the painters yet. BUT I have listened to Effie about three times (I want to say that’s on audible plus right now and if so I’m buying it once it’s dropped). And everytime I listen to it I absorb a little bit more of that tragic tale. How I found this book I have no idea. I must have done a search on my iPad and this popped up with other items. I’ve really enjoyed it. To be able to read all three of these books gives the mind such a brilliant inside story. Rossetti needs some of my bipolar meds he’s so manic I’m surprised his spirit hasn’t jumped out of the pages and tried to paint me. Walking common disaster. I recommend if you get this book, try to at least get Effie as well. I’m not very far at all with Lizzy to know how it fits in. Just remember I warned you about Ruskin.