ABSTRACT
The room. The private space in which she is defined, of having no country. She cleans the surface of the room, she scrubs, she wipes, she (re)presents this definition of herself. She is the angel in the house. (‘The Angel in the House’, a poem by Coventry Patmore, was published in 1854-6. It was a celebration of married love.) How she has been defined by the room, by the objects therein; how she is reflected in the room, how the room is a reflection of herself. She does not and cannot possess it, only be possessed by it.
