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Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management Isabella Beeton

Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management By Isabella Beeton

Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management by Isabella Beeton


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Summary

This almost forgotten classic text of Victorian middle-class identity offers advice on fashion, child-care, animal husbandry, poisons, and the management of servants. Alternatively frugal and fashionable, this book highlights the concerns of the growing Victorian middle-class at a key moment in its history. Illustrations.

Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management Summary

Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management: Abridged edition by Isabella Beeton

'As with the commander of an army, or the leader of any enterprise, so it is with the mistress of a house.' A founding text of Victorian middle-class identity, Household Management is today one of the great unread classics. Over a thousand pages long, and written when its author was only 22, it offered highly authoritative advice on subjects as diverse as fashion, child-care, animal husbandry, poisons, and the management of servants. To the modern reader expecting stuffy moralizing and watery vegetables, Beeton's book is a revelation: it ranges widely across the foods of Europe and beyond, actively embracing new food stuffs and techniques, mixing domestic advice with discussions of science, religion, class, industrialism and gender roles. Alternately fashionable and frugal, anxious and blusteringly self-confident, Household Management highlights the concerns of the ever-expanding Victorian middle-class at a key moment in its history. The abridged edition does justice to its high status as a cookery book, while also suggesting ways of approaching this massive, hybrid text as a significant document of social and cultural history. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management Reviews

The recipes are excellent and there are all sorts of tips that help me save money, time and temper. * Sandi Toksvig, Daily Express *
sold out in Central London book shops within weeks * Red, August 2000 *

Additional information

GOR003810777
9780199536337
0199536333
Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management: Abridged edition by Isabella Beeton
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Oxford University Press
2008-06-12
672
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This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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