Home Feed
Home
Search
Search
Add Review, Blurb, Quote
Add
Activity
Activity
Profile
Profile
Parallel Lives
Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages | P. Rose
3 posts | 3 read | 8 to read
Phyllis Rose sets out to show that Victorian marriage was likely to have been far more varied, flexible, and even tolerant, than we liberated post-Freudians commonly suppose. Famous literary marriages are examined: that of John Ruskin and Effie Gray was unconsummated; those of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh, and John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor, almost certainly were also; the Dickenses' marriage degenerated into melodrama; and the liaison between George Eliot and G.H. Lewes, which scandalized London society, was the happiest of the lot.
Amazon Indiebound Barnes and Noble WorldCat Goodreads LibraryThing
Pick icon
100%
review
Ruthiella
post image
Pickpick

5 marriages of well known Victorian writers/intellectuals: Jane Welsh and Thomas Carlyle, Effie Gray and John Ruskin, Harriet Taylor and John Stuart Mill, Catherine Hogarth and Charles Dickens, and George Eliot and George Henry Lewes. I was only familiar with Dickens. Fascinating stuff. Rose looks at how these unions affected careers and legacies and how they were seen in that era compared to our current perceptions of marriage. My 1st #Roll100

KathyWheeler When I got my MA in English 1000 years ago, my concentration was in Victorian Lit, and my thesis included both Carlyle and Dickens. Can‘t wait to check this out! 3y
Ruthiella @KathyWheeler Oh! I think you will like it then. 😃 3y
Cathythoughts Great collage! 3y
See All 12 Comments
Sophronisba Oh, this book is fabulous, I just loved it. The Carlyles are especially interesting, I thought. 3y
PuddleJumper Sounds really interesting! 3y
Ruthiella @Cathythoughts Thanks Cathy! 😊 3y
Ruthiella @Sophronisba Totally. While perhaps unconventional by modern standards, their partnership was also quite successful in its way. 🤔 3y
Ruthiella @PuddleJumper It was! 😃 3y
LeahBergen This book was cited in a book I just finished and found fascinating 3y
Ruthiella @LeahBergen Interesting coincidence! 😃 3y
Centique Oh wow - you hit my wheelhouse dead centre!! Might take me a while but I want to get to this 😍 3y
Ruthiella @Centique I understand. I had the book on my shelf for years till I finally got to it. 3y
58 likes4 stack adds12 comments
blurb
Ruthiella
post image

These are my first #Roll100 books (numbers 24 and 49). Looking forward to reading them! The Haddon has been on my shelf since 2007. 😳

PuddleJumper Happy reading! 3y
Soubhiville I liked that Haddon. Enjoy! 3y
BiblioLitten Happy reading and happy new year! 😊 3y
Ruthiella @BiblioLitten Thank You! Happy New Year to you too.🥳 3y
54 likes5 comments
blurb
Pasaal

Not any easy read, but a very interesting study about the Victorian marriages and relationships of five well known authors from the mid 1800's. Women had very little power, but some still managed to enjoy personal freedom although at the cost of society's approval.