jan 1, 1854 - Coventry Patmore, The Angel in the House, (poem) is published
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he Angel in the House published by Coventry Patmore in 1854 is a narrative poem that prescribes the ideal qualities of a Victorian wife. Patmore, using his own wife as a model, depicted the perfect Victorian woman as angelic, sweet, and lacking any desire for sexual intercourse. Victorian women's "angelic" purpose was to make a morally upright household for her husbandAdded to timeline:
Date:
jan 1, 1854
Now
~ 171 years ago