Title: 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
Places: England, Great Britain
People: Charles Dickens (1812-1870), John Ruskin (1819-1900), Thomas Carlyle, John Stuart Mill, George Eliot
Time periods: 19th century, Victoria, 1837-1901