context: ADH (henrik ibsen)

Question 1

who wrote ‘the angel in the house’?

Answer 1

conventry patmore

Question 2

what is ‘the angel in the house’?

Answer 2

the angel of the house is a narrative poem about the victorian ideal of a happy marriage

Question 3

over what years were the installations of ‘the angel in the house’ published?

Answer 3

first published in 1854, the poem was expanded up until 1862

Question 4

what was the public reception of ‘the angel of the house’?

Answer 4

though largely ignored upon publication, the poem became enormously popular during the later nineteenth century and its influence continued well into the twentieth

Question 5

how would a victorian wife who followed the narrative set in ‘the angel in the house’ present herself?

Answer 5

by being devoted and submissive to her husband.

Question 6

what was virginia woolf’s stance on the poem, ‘the angel in the house’?

Answer 6

she believed it to be repressive, writing, in 1931, that “killing the angel in the house was part of the occupation of a woman writer”