Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages (King Penguin)

History

Phyllis Rose

Europe

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Follows the singer's rise from poverty and obscurity to international stardom against the backdrop of 1920's Paris and a Europe in the shadow of Hilter, and recounts her later civil rights activism and many adoptions

Jazz Cleopatra: Josephine Baker in Her Time

Humor & Entertainment

DOUBLEDAY

A professor of English who tried unsuccessfully for many years to read Proust and who committed herself to reading all of his works writes about her own life as it became intertwined with his characters in a powerful and humorous combination. 25,000 first printing.

The Year of Reading Proust: A Memoir in Real Time

Biographies & Memoirs

Marcel, Proust

Professionals & Academics

Scribner

Woman of Letters: Life of Virginia Woolf

Regional U.S.

Routledge

Woman Of Letters: Life Of Virginia Woolf

Rivers Oram Press/Pandora List

‘It is, of course, one of life’s persistent disappointments that a great moral crisis in my life is nothing but matter for gossip in yours.’\nA book that Nora Ephron read every four or five years, Parallel Lives is an essential work of non-fiction about marriage, intimacy, power – and the search for more complex plots.\nIn Parallel Lives, the academic and writer Phyllis Rose examines five famous Victorian marriages, from Charles Dickens’ disastrous marriage to Catherine Hogarth to George Eliot’s joyful and unwed union with George Henry Lewes. In an age where divorce was scandalous and ‘until death do us part’ was taken literally, the subjects of Rose’s book found inventive and surprising ways to co-exist together. As she describes these fascinating parallel lives in detail, Rose shows how desire, fantasy, power and control continue to play out in our most intimate relationships.

Parallel Lives

Daunt Books

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