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How did John Ruskinās marriage to Effie Gray end?
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John Ruskin, tinted lithograph published in London, c. 1880.
John Ruskinās marriage to Effie Gray was dissolved in 1854 on the grounds of nonconsummation. Following the annulment, Effie Gray was free to marry the Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais. Ruskin later omitted all mention of this marriage from his autobiography, Praeterita.1