Coventry Patmore (1823-1896). Poet, journalist and son of P. G. Patmore, free-thinker and friend of William Hazlitt. Patmore's first volume of poetry published in 1844, was parodied by Blackwood's Magazine, and included The Woodman's Daughter, later to be the subject of a painting by John Everett Millais. On the recommendation of Richard Monckton Milnes he became an assistant in the book department of the British Museum. He married Emily Andrews, the daughter of a Congregationalist minister who taught Ruskin, in 1847, and was an associate of the Pre-Raphaelites from 1849, contributing to The Germ. He also wrote for the Edinburgh Review, the North British Review, and the British Quarterly Review. An admirer of Tennyson, Patmore is best known for his poem celebrating marriage - The Angel in the House (1854-1863) - which has come to represent a stereotype of ideal Victorian womanhood. Following his wife's death Patmore converted to Roman Catholicism in 1864. (See Works, 36.xxi-ii for Ruskin's friendship with Patmore, and Works, 35.73-74 for Ruskin's reference to Dr. Andrews).