Beeton, (Isabella Mary)
Summary: Annotation An almost forgotten classic though a founding text of Victorian middle-class identity,Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Managementis a volume of insight and common sense. Written by what one might now describe as a Victorian Martha Stewart, the book offers advice on fashion, child-care, animal husbandry, poisons, and the management of servants. To the modern reader expecting stuffy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2000
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ward Lock 1994
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.5 BEESummary: Based on the life of Isabella Beeton, author of Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management and the most famous cookbook author in British history. Isabella was an accomplished business woman who died when she was only 28. Traces Isabella's transformation from young wife, to magazine journalist, to publishing phenomenon, and, although she couldn't cook, ended up producing the world's most famous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by PBS Home Video 2007