Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages - Softcover
Examines the marriages of five Victorian couples--the Carlyles, Ruskins, Dickenses, Mills, and George Eliot and George Henry Lewes--to demonstrate the classic strengths and weaknesses of the institution of marriage
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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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Phyllis Rose is a professor of English at Wesleyan University. She received her bachelor's degree from Radcliffe, her master's from Yale, and her doctorate from Harvard. She taught briefly at both Harvard and Yale before coming to Wesleyan in 1969, and has also been a visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley. The author lives in Middletown, Connecticut, with her son, Teddy. Her first book, Woman of Letters: A Life of Virginia Woolf, was nominated for the 1978 National Book Award.
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- PublisherPenguin Books Ltd
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0140108890
- ISBN 13 9780140108897
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages320
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good copy. Reprint of 1985. Cover illustration by Gary Blythe. Contents: Prologue. 1). Jane Welsh & Thomas Carlyle. 2). Effie Gray & John Ruskin. 3). Harriet Taylor & John Stuart Mill. 4). Catherine Hogarth & Charles Dickens. 5). George Eliot & George Henry Lewes. 6). Jane Welsh & Thomas Carlyle. With 2 postludes, a chronology, notes, bibliography and index. 311 pag. Size: 20cmx13cm. Seller Inventory # 014886
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