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It tells the life story of Angelica ('Angel') Deverell from her adolescence and first attempts at writing, through the course of her career as a successful writer of sensational romances, into her decline, old age and death. Although she finds fame and wealth and marries the love of her life, Angel is condemned to a life of isolation and disappointment: critics regard her work as absurd and her closest relationships - with her publisher, her husband, and her sister-in-law - are doomed by the inability of others to conform to her unrealistic view of life. Although Angel is in the main portrayed as a grotesque eccentric, she is frequently made to seem pathetic, if not tragic. Angel is a fictional representation of the kind of temporarily popular writer of romances such as Marie Corelli , Ouida , or Ethel M. Dell . ''Angel'' was reprinted by Virago in 1984 with a new introduction by Paul Bailey. |
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