Parallel Lives : : Five Victorian Marriages
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Jane Welsh & Thomas Carlyle -- Effie Gray & John Ruskin -- Harriet Taylor & John Stuart Mill -- Catherine Hogarth & Charles Dickens -- George Eliot & George Henry Lewes.
In her study of the married couple as the smallest political unit, Phyllis Rose uses as examples the marriages of five Victorian writers who wrote about their own lives with unusual candor.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Vintage Books, 1984.
Year Published: 1984
Description: 318 p. : ports. ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0394725808
9780394725802
SUBJECTS
Marriage -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies.
Married people -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Authors, English -- 19th century -- Biography.
Authors' spouses -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901 -- Biography.