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Synopsis
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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About the Author
Phyllis Rose is the author of Woman of Letters: A Life of Virginia Woolf, and of the highly acclaimed Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages, which established her as a biographer of the first rank. Her most recent book is Jazz Cleopatra, a biography of Josephine Baker. She has taught literature at Wesleyan University since 1969, and has written essays, reviews, and articles for many publications. She lives in Middletown, Connecticut.
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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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Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages
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Parallel Lives : Five Victorian Marriages
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Parallel Lives : Five Victorian Marriages
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PARALLEL LIVES : Five Victorian Marriages
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Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. 318pp. Softback, VG, index, bibliography, Discusses the courtships and marriages of five literary couples; Jane Welsh & Thomas Carlyle, Effie Gray & John Ruskin, Harriet Taylor & John Stuart Mill, Catherine Hogarth & Charles Dickens, George Eliot & George Henry Lewes, Seller Inventory # w111211758
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Parallel Lives : Five Victorian Marriages
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Schorr, David (illustrator) (illustrator). New York, NY, U.S.A: Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated, 1983. Soft Cover. Very Good. Schorr, David (illustrator). Cover has edge wear, creases, scratches, small bent cover/page corners, rubbed spine. No writing. . ISBN: 0394524322. Book. Seller Inventory # 002317