Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages- Phyllis Rose

‘I believe that marriage, whether we see it as a psychological relationship or a political one, has determined the story of our lives more than we have generally acknowledged.’

From the disastrous to the blissful, from Dickens to Eliot, this book examine the inventive and often surprising methods some Victorian ‘celebrities’ used to coexist in an age when divorce was a no-go and ‘till death do us part’ meant just that.