Parallel lives

Description:

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.

subjects: Authors' spouses,  Authors, English - 19th century - Biography - Marriage,  Biography,  Case studies,  English Authors,  Great Britain,  History,  Marriage,  Married people,  Cas, Études de,  Biographies,  Histoire,  Couples,  Mariage,  Écrivains anglais,  Man-woman relationships,  Marriage, great britain

People: Charles Dickens (1812-1870),  John Ruskin (1819-1900),  Thomas Carlyle,  John Stuart Mill,  George Eliot

Places: England,  Great Britain

Times: 19th century,  Victoria, 1837-1901