Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages

Phyllis Rose

ISBN 10: 0394725808 / ISBN 13: 9780394725802

Verlag: Random House USA Inc, United States, New York, 1984

The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers GOR005496310

Inhaltsangabe:

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: 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.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages
Verlag: Random House USA Inc, United States, New York
Erscheinungsdatum: 1984
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Good