Editing Effie Gray (section)

=== Ruskin's rapport with Rose La Touche ===

In 1858, Ruskin met [[Rose La Touche]]; at the time she was 10 years old, and he became her teacher in drawing as well as other subjects.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ruskin |first=John |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/worksofjohnruski35rusk/page/n77/mode/2up |title=The works of John Ruskin |publisher=London: George Allen; New York: Longmans, Green, and Co. |year=1909 |editor-last=Cook |editor-first=Edward Tyas |editor-link=Edward Tyas Cook |volume=35 |pages=lxvi–lxvii |language=English |chapter=Introduction |oclc=1097357632 |editor-last2=Wedderburn |editor-first2=Alexander Dundas Ogilvy}}</ref> Ruskin became attracted to La Touche and when she turned 18 sought to become engaged. Rose's parents were concerned and wrote to Gray, asking for her opinion of Ruskin as a husband. Her reply described him as "oppressive".<ref>This detail needs to be researched. See Gregory Murphy's Letter to the Editor in the New York Times, June 2000 (next citation). Murphy says the first letter went to Mr. Millais, and it was a second letter that went to Effie. This same source mentions the actual letters are in the [https://www.themorgan.org/search/site/Bowerswell%20Papers Bowerswell Papers] at the Morgan Library in New York. But quick research didn’t find the actual letters to confirm with Murphy wrote.</ref> The engagement was broken off.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Murphy |first=Gregory |date=2000-06-04 |title=Ruskin's Misogyny |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/04/books/l-ruskin-s-misogyny-440728.html |access-date=2021-08-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160308121654/http://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/04/books/l-ruskin-s-misogyny-440728.html |archive-date=2016-03-08 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Prodger |first=Michael |date=29 March 2013 |title=John Ruskin's marriage: what really happened |work=[[The Guardian]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/mar/29/ruskin-effie-marriage-inconvenience-brownell |access-date=20 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210608062943/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/mar/29/ruskin-effie-marriage-inconvenience-brownell |archive-date=2021-06-08}}</ref>