Uncommon Arrangements
by Katie Roiphe | 
That Woman
by Anne Sebba | 
Victoria
by Julia Baird | 
Beau Brummell
by Ian Kelly | 
Elizabeth the Queen
by Sally Bedell Smith | 
Eminent Victorians
by Lytton Strachey | 
Mistress of the Elgin Marbles
by Susan Nagel | 
A Scandalous Life
by Mary S. Lovell |
Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter
by Diana Souhami | 
Bess of Hardwick
by Mary S. Lovell | 
Disraeli
by Robert Blake | 
Five Sisters
by James Fox | 
Queen Victoria
by Lytton Strachey | 
The Richest Woman in America
by Janet Wallach |
The Peabody Sisters
by Megan Marshall |
Fly Girls
by Keith O'Brien |
The Shelf
by Phyllis Rose | 
Call The Midwife
by Jennifer Worth |
Shadows of the Workhouse
by Jennifer Worth | 
Assata
by Assata Shakur |
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.