the ideal of womanhood : sposa devota, madre premurosa

The Ideal of Womanhood: sposa devota, madre premurosa

Coventry Patmore, “The Angel in the House" (originally published in 1854, revised through 1862).

Millais, Emily Augusta Andrews Patmore

Ford Madox Brown, 1821 - 1893 Oure Ladye of Good Children

Date: 1847-61

Ford Madox Brown – 'Take Your Son, Sir!'

Woman’s Mission, Companion of Manhood,George Elgar Hicks, 1863

The Order of Release, by John Everett Millais

"King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid," 1884, by Edward Burne-Jones,

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (The Beggar Maid, written 1833, published 1842)

• Her arms across her breast she laid;She was more fair than words can say;Barefooted came the beggar maidBefore the king Cophetua.In robe and crown the king stept down,To meet and greet her on her way;‘It is no wonder,’ said the lords,‘She is more beautiful than day.’ As shines the moon in clouded skies,She in her poor attire was seen;One praised her ankles, one her eyes,One her dark hair and lovesome mien.So sweet a face, such angel grace,In all that land had never been.Cophetua sware a royal oath:‘This beggar maid shall be my queen!’