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Parallel livesPhyllis Rose, P. Rose
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Parallel lives

318 pagesFirst published 19835 editions
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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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Editions

5 in Spinefolk
FormatPublisherYearPagesISBN
EditionVintage19943119780099308713
EditionPenguin19853119780140074390
EditionChatto & Windus19843189780701128258
EditionVintage Books19843189780394725802
EditionKnopf19833189780394524320
Authors' spousesBiographyCase studiesEnglish AuthorsGreat BritainHistoryMarriageMarried people