Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages - Softcover

Rose, Phyllis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0394524322 ISBN 13: 9780394524320

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983

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

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

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.

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0394524322
• ISBN 13: 9780394524320
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 318