Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages
- ISBN-10
- 0394725808
- ISBN-13
- 9780394725802
- Series
- Parallel Lives
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 318
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1984
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Author
- Phyllis Rose
Description
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.
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