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Parallel lives

Phyllis Rose

1983311 pagesabout 5–7 hours
1983
first published
  • 1983A. Knopf · ENGISBN 9780394524320
  • 1984Vintage Books · ENGISBN 9780394725802
  • 1984Chatto & Windus · 318 pages · ENGISBN 9780701128258
  • 1985Penguin · 311 pages · ENGISBN 9780140074390
  • 1994Vintage · 311 pages · ENGISBN 9780099308713

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.

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