Parallel Lives
Five Victorian Marriages
Published on 22. September 2010
336 pages
978-0-307-76150-7 (ISBN)
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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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Parallel Lives
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Phyllis Rose is a professor of English at Wesleyan University. She received her bachelor's degree from Radcliffe, her master's from Yale, and her doctorate from Harvard. She taught briefly at both Harvard and Yale before coming to Wesleyan in 1969, and has also been a visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley. The author lives in Middletown, Connecticut, with her son, Teddy. Her first book, Woman of Letters: A Life of Virginia Woolf, was nominated for the 1978 National Book Award.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- Part 1 - Jane Welsh and Thomas Carlyle 1821-1866
- Chapter 1 - The Carlyles' Courtship
- Part 2 - Effie Gray and John Ruskin 1848-1854
- Chapter 2 - Prelude: Carlyle and the Gentleman from Paisley
- Chapter 3 - Newlyweds
- Chapter 4 - Triangle
- Part 3 - Harriet Taylor and John Stuart Mill 1830-1858
- Chapter 5 - Prelude: Carlyle and J. S. Mill's Maid
- Chapter 6 - Living Reasonably
- Chapter 7 - A Marriage of Equals
- Part 4 - Catherine Hogarth and Charles Dickens 1835-1858
- Chapter 8 - Prelude: The Carlyles and the Magnetized Body
- Chapter 9 - Paterfamilias
- Chapter 10 - Dickens Dissatisfied
- Part 5 - George Eliot and George Henry Lewes 1854-1878
- Chapter 11 - Prelude: The Carlyles and the Visiting Australian
- Chapter 12 - A Second Birth
- Chapter 13 - Living in Sin
- Chapter 14 - Allies
- Part 6 - Jane Welsh and Thomas Carlyle 1821-1866
- Chapter 15 - Mr. and Mrs. Carlyle
- Postlude I: Carlyle and the Punch-and-Judy Show
- Postlude II: Carlyle and the Jamaica Rebellion
- A Chronology
- Notes Selected Bibliography Index
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- About the Author
- Copyright
