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An almost forgotten classic though a founding text of Victorian middle-class identity,Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management is 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 verbosity or heavy moralizing, Beeton's book is a revelation: it explores the foods of Europe and beyond, suggesting new food stuffs and techniques, mixing domestic advice with discussions of science, religion, class, industrialism and gender roles. Alternately frugal and fashionable, anxious and self confident, the book highlights the concerns of the growing Victorian middle-class at a key moment in its history. This abridged edition serves as a cookery book, while documenting a significant aspect of Victorian social and cultural history.
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`conveys a wonderful insight into Victorian life.' Marguerite Patten, Saga, July 2000
`The book is a great reference for classic British food' Restaurant
'It could well turn out to be the surprise bestseller of 2000,answering as it does the new hunger for real cooking ....[it] exactly captures our longing for a return to the real thing.' Kathryn Hughes, The Observer, 2.1.2000
`The book is a great reference for classic British food' Restaurant
'It could well turn out to be the surprise bestseller of 2000,answering as it does the new hunger for real cooking ....[it] exactly captures our longing for a return to the real thing.' Kathryn Hughes, The Observer, 2.1.2000
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- PublisherFarrar Straus & Giroux
- Publication date1968
- ISBN 10 0374215138
- ISBN 13 9780374215132
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages1112
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Facsimile. A First Edition Facsimile of the 1861 original. Illustrated. Previous owner's gift inscription on front free endpaper. * Does not match the "stock image" shown. A few stains to DJ top front panel and top of DJ spine. Interior is clean and unmarked. A very nice copy. Seller Inventory # 026123
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Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management With a History of the Origin, Properties, and Uses of all Things Connected with Home Life and Comfort.
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Facsimile. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some bumping, rubbing and one or two nicks. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown page. "Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management, also published as Mrs. Beeton's Cookery Book, is an extensive guide to running a household in Victorian Britain, edited by Isabella Beeton and first published as a book in 1861. Previously published in parts, it initially and briefly bore the title Beeton's Book of Household Management, as one of the series of guidebooks published by her husband, Samuel Beeton. The recipes were highly structured, in contrast to those in earlier cookbooks. It was illustrated with many monochrome and colour plates. Although Mrs. Beeton died in 1865, the book continued to be a best-seller. The first editions after her death contained an obituary notice, but later editions did not, allowing readers to imagine that every word was written by an experienced Mrs. Beeton personally. Many of the recipes were copied from the most successful cookery books of the day, including Eliza Acton's Modern Cookery for Private Families (first published in 1845) ," (from Wikipedia). Seller Inventory # A47193
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