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“Gossip is a really good thing”: Interview with Phyllis Rose

8th January 2023

Constance talks to the author of Parallel Lives, to discuss the role of marriage both within the book and in society more broadly. Phyllis Rose’s Parallel Lives, a study of five Victorian marriages, covers the ground of newlyweds, sexual disgust, affairs, ménage à trois, the mid-life crisis, re-marriage, love and revenge. It has become a ...