Rose, Phyllis
Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages
- ISBN 13:
- 9781911547525
- author:
- Rose, Phyllis
- format:
- Paperback / softback
- publisher:
- Daunt Books
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2020
- Pages:
- 360
- Genre:
- Biography, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Biography,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Phyllis Rose examines five famous Victorian marriages, probing the politics of sex and marriage expectations. She challenges inherited myths and assumptions.
The lives of John Ruskin and Effie Gray, Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh, John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor, Charles Dickens, and George Eliot and G.H. Lewes are explored in this book. Their relationships reveal the complexities of Victorian marriage and societal expectations.
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