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Title: MRS BEETON'S BOOK OF HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT
By: Isabella Beeton, Nicola Humble (Editor)
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0199536333
ISBN 13: 9780199536337
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Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 12 June, 2008
Edition: Abridged edition
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Pages: 672
Description: 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.
Synopsis: '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.
Illustrations: illustrations
Publication: UK
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Returns: Returnable
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