Coventry Patmore writes the poem, "The Angel in the House" and holds his wife to be the example that all women should follow. Women were supposed to be submissive and devoted to their husbands and have the qualitites of charm, purity, grace, sympathy, and self-sacrificing. 

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http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/novel_19c/thackeray/angel.html

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1854

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