KILLING THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE (PENGUIN 60S) (edition 1995)

by VIRGINIA WOOLF

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Title:	KILLING THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE (PENGUIN 60S)
Authors:	VIRGINIA WOOLF
Info:	PENGUIN BOOKS LTD (1995), Paperback, 96 pages
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This is described as "seven essays" by Woolf, but that's not really accurate. There's a lecture, a couple of reviews, letters to the editor. The title comes from a poem by Coventry Patmore, "The Angel in the House", a lengthy narrative poem that presented an ideal of marital bliss in which the wife was self-sacrificing, pure, submissive.

"Man must be pleased; but him to please
Is woman's pleasure . . ."

Woolf did not approve!

lilithcat | Oct 24, 2023 |

Important essays from an important author and a feminist. (

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flydodofly | Sep 26, 2017 |

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