Parallel lives

By P. Rose, Phyllis Rose

Subjects: Marriage, Biography, Marriage, great britain, Écrivains anglais, Biographies, Case studies, English Authors, Authors, English - 19th century - Biography - Marriage, Histoire, Cas, Études de, Mariage, Man-woman relationships, Authors' spouses, Married people, Couples, History, Great Britain

Description: In her study of the married couple as the smallest political unit, Phyllis Rose uses the marriages of five Victorian writers who wrote about their own lives with unusual candor: Charles Dickens, John Ruskin, Thomas Carlyle, John Stuart Mill, and George Eliot--née Marian Evans.