Heroine recalled being beaten about at home (10)
I believe the answer is:
cinderella
'heroine' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?
'recalled being beaten about at home' is the wordplay.
'being beaten' indicates an anagram (letters beaten up or destroyed).
'about' indicates putting letters inside.
'at home' becomes 'in' ('I'm in' can mean 'I'm at home').
'recalled' with letters rearranged gives 'cderella'.
'cderella' placed around 'in' is 'CINDERELLA'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for cinderella that I've seen before include "movie" , "Ballet by Prokofiev" , "rags-to-riches tale" , "girl at a ball?" , "Pantomime heroine" .)