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Name: Parallel Lives

Author: Phyllis Rose
Year: 1983
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Genres/categories: History, Biographies, Non Fiction, Memoirs, Historical fiction, Feminism

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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.The couples are John Ruskin and Effie Gray; Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh; John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor; George Eliot and G. H. Lewes; Charles Dickens and Catherine Hogarth.
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