Killing The Angel: Early British Transgressive Woman Writers

Virginia Woolf said a woman writer had first to kill the Angel in the House. This book is about British women writers who comprehensively killed the Angel in their own house, who transgressed the expectations placed upon the women of their time by learning to read, learning languages, learning to think for themselves, enjoying the company of other, equally transgressive women, studying and translating contemporary European literature and the male classics of the patriarchive, often for mone...