This is described as "seven essays" by Woolf, but that's not really accurate. There's a lecture, a couple of reviews, letters to the editor. The title comes from a poem by Coventry Patmore, "The Angel in the House", a lengthy narrative poem that presented an ideal of marital bliss in which the wife was self-sacrificing, pure, submissive.

"Man must be pleased; but him to please
Is woman's pleasure . . ."

Woolf did not approve!

Important essays from an important author and a feminist. ( )