In 1854, at a time when divorce was considered taboo, Effie Gray went to court to annul her marriage to art critic John Ruskin. Gray cited the non-consummation of their wedding vows as justification ...

Mark Samuels Lasner, who collects and studies Victorian and pre-Raphaelite books and art, will deliver this year's Josephine Gessner Ferguson Lecture in English Literature at 6 p.m. Thursday. His talk ...

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